[newbies] WEP encryption problems with Red Hat 8.0

[Dave Christensen]

I installed Red Hat Linux 8.0 on my laptop at the Linux install fest without any problems. My wireless network card worked great with the base station setup at the install fest. However, after I got back home and tried to get my wireless card to work with my own Linksys Base station (BEFW11S4) I found that I can only get it to work if I disable WEP encryption. When I enter the proper WEP key in the form of xx:xx:xx ... in the network configuration dialogue and then try to activate the network device it tries to activate for about a minute and then fails. There did not appear to be any useful error messages in /var/log/messages after failing. This card and base station work fine together when I boot up under Windows 2000 Professional. I even tried to activate it from the command line with the following results:   ifup eth1 Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :     SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument. Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :     SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.   Determining IP information for eth1...PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) from 192.168.2.112 : 56(84) bytes of data.   --- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% loss, time 1999ms , pipe 3  failed.     Please let me know if you have any ideas about how I can get my wireless card to work with 128 bit WEP encryption.   Thanks,   Dave Christensen