On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 1:57 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > SNIP > Huff, Derek, I don't know what I am doing wrong because I do not succeed in > connecting to Internet. > > My encryption key is a ten digit number, so I wrote in the corresponding > fields as: s:xxxxxxxxxx. >
Are you **sure** it is an ASCII string that just happens to be numbers. Or could it be a Hex number which just happens not to include any digit larger than 9 ? Try again giving it in the format xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > The modem-router assigns the directions IP, so I never unchecked the DHCP > box. > > I also know my ESSID: 2wire806. I suppose here I do not have to be careful > with capitals or lower case letters. > Keep the capitalisation the same as in Windows > I will try in a moment to write an IP address from the pool in the router, > and see if I can connect. > > I think I followed your instructions carefully. Maybe I am doing something > silly. > > Teilhard. Also what do you see if you enter iwconfig and ifconfig in a root terminal? It may be the link is working but your default route is set to use a fixed ethernet. (Post us the result from a 'route' command ) derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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