Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Timo Hoenig
Hi Gene, On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 23:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: 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

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 04:49, Timo Hoenig wrote: Hi Gene, On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 23:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: 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

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Timo Hoenig
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 08:14 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: snip 'netto' is a new term to me. Can you elaborate? Oh, sorry for that. I meant 'net'. While we're at it, what the heck is a 'lappy'? :-) Just kidding. snip suspect adventure So this works, but half an hours putzing around doesn't

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 08:29, Timo Hoenig wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 08:14 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: snip 'netto' is a new term to me. Can you elaborate? Oh, sorry for that. I meant 'net'. While we're at it, what the heck is a 'lappy'? :-) Just kidding. snip suspect adventure

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Timo Hoenig
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 08:38 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: I turned it off since no known password will access it. Someplace its master password has apparently never been set. Or something like that. How, or where, can this be fixed? I have no idea about details of KWallet, please get in

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Darren Albers
On 1/24/07, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that is one huge, glaringly blinding error. What the heck good is it if it cannot automate things for a roaming machine? I think you misunderstand, when he says profiles he means things like static addresses etc and an interface to modify

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 08:42, Timo Hoenig wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 08:38 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: I turned it off since no known password will access it. Someplace its master password has apparently never been set. Or something like that. How, or where, can this be fixed? I have

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 09:21, Timo Hoenig wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:11 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: 20 some years ago I was dreaming in hexidecimal, writing code for 8 bitters like the 1802, Z-80(spit) and the 6x09 stuff, and I would have taken you up on that in a heartbeat. Hey, I'm

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:15, Darren Albers wrote: [...] Not to sound harsh but it sounds like you are causing your own problems This is NOT intentional by any means, its me, playing blind squirrel looking for the magic nut when things don't work. If you would fix your problems with

Re: questions re WEP keys

2007-01-24 Thread Darren Albers
On 1/24/07, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:15, Darren Albers wrote: [...] Not to sound harsh but it sounds like you are causing your own problems This is NOT intentional by any means, its me, playing blind squirrel looking for the magic nut when

questions re WEP keys

2007-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
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