On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Peter Kelly wrote:
> Holas!
>
> I recently bought a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop. I purposely got an Intel
> 3945
> wireless card installed, because I read that it was more linux friendly than
> the dell wireless card.
>
> I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. I get an error
>
> error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A)
> Operation not supported
>
> when I run
> # iwconfig eth1 key "26 hex character key"
>
> when trying to set the the encryption key for my home network. I'm certainly
> not going to turn off WEP encryption, so I need to fix this.
Maybe you need to modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep and the relevant crypto
algorithm modules? That's what I remember being the issue when the card
generally works but WEP doesn't. I think the older wifi supporting code
doesn't let you separate this stuff out, while the new code doesn't
automatically handle loading modules when necessary. I remember dmesg
being more informative than iwconfig when it fails, also.
-Daniel
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