Dave, Did you walk through the configuration wizard under "System Settings -> Network"? When you pull up that wizard, you should see your wireless card in the list of network devices. From there, you should be able to edit it to enable wep.
Google told me that a writer suggests changing from orinoco_cs to linux-wlan-ng, which is what I use. Installation requires a little more attention and a slightly greater amount of expertise. Here's a rough outline of how to get it installed: (Warning: this may render wireless networking unusable temporarily, but you'll lean a heck of a lot of stuff on the way. Perhaps you should bring your laptop to the next UUG meeting so we can help you one on one) 1. First, make sure you have the kernel sources and kernel headers installed: apt-get install kernel-headers apt-get install [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever version you are running, use 'uname -a' to figure out). 2. Download the linux-wlan-ng driver (ng is "next generation"): ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9.tar.gz 3. Untar it: 'tar -xvzf linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9.tar.gz' 4. cd into the new directory 5. type ./configure Answer 'yes' to building the prism2_cs driver and 'no' to everything else. 6. Then, type 'make' 7. Then, type 'make install' 8. Other configuration. Now, you'll need to edit /etc/modules.conf (or perhaps a different one -- not at my machine to know for sure. Is this /etc/modules.conf or /etc/pcmcia/something?) to tell it to load the 'prism2_cs' driver when your card is inserted rather than your 'orinoco_cs' driver. (cs stands for Card Servics) Now, this will create a new network device called 'wlan0' rather than 'eth1' that you had before. Read on from the linux-wlan-ng project and Dr. Google to get more details (you'll probably need them). --Dave <quote who="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 > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
