Greetings; I have a situation where I would like to generate long keys, 128 bit, and in fact have done so.
The lappy is running FC5, recent kernel. But from the messages I see in the logs, and what I see in knetworkmanager, it appears that the only key length supported by knetworkmanager is a puny little 40 bit key. The radio in the lappy is a bcm43xx. The access point is an elderly wap11 version 1.0. Ignoring knetworkmanager, I have edited the same keys into both the keys-wlan0 file on the lappy, and in the uploaded keys to the wap11 using the wap11gui. FWIW, this all worked just fine using ndiswrapper rather than the bcm43xx module back in May of last year. But, when I attempt to bring up wlan0, I see the access point being synchronized with by way of agreeing on the mac addresses that can talk to each other. The mac addresses logged are correct. The next step, if the bootproto=dhcp, is the issuance of a quad of DHCPDISCOVER packets over a period of about a minute, none of which are ack'd. These DHCPDISCOVER queries are being issued to 255.255.255.255. Is this correct? The router is enabled to service 50 clients for dhcp, and I would expect such a query to be sent to the gateway address listed in ifcfg-wlan0, which is in the 192.168.x.x range. However, I can set bootproto=none, and setup the stuff in that same ifcfg-wlan0 file, and get virtually the same results except it fusses that the address is already taken, which AFAICS it is not. As I see it, the wap11 is probably filtering the requests with its MASK of 255.255.255.0, but what do I know... Its 'gateway address' in its setup is the same as here, the local address of the router, a 1/18/2007 version of dd-wrt running on an x86 box. What is the next thing to check? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list