Hey,

Don't bother with it, WEP can be broken (cracked) in 5 minutes (with easily available and freely downloadable soft) and in my experience all WEP really achieves is slows down the link (my 2xIWE1100 bridge runs at 550kB/s without WEP and 100kB/s with WEP).

Cheers, MaZe.

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Hugh Tollan wrote:

Hi folks,

Any advice about configuring CentOS 4 and wep?

I am using an intel pro 2200 which is configured and working but fails with wep,

Cheers in advance

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On Tuesday 07 June 2005 17:03, Hugh Tollan wrote:

Any advice about configuring CentOS 4 and wep?

Now that several people have expended too much effort denouncing and defending WEP, let's see if we can't actually answer your question.

I have a Dell Inspiron 600m with a ipw2100, close kin to the 2200 you have. It Just Works. I think I had to specifically tell system-config-network about it and that it was a wireless device, not an ethernet, but at that point I created a connection with it, gave it the WEP key in hex (of the right length), the SSID (which is case-sensitive, I might mention), and told it to use Managed Mode. I think in order to properly recognize the adapter I had to load firmware manually once, then the wireless settings Just Worked.

Ask the IPW220 list for more detailed information; oddly, try ipw2100.sourceforge.net and subscribe to the list.

I don't consider 'don't use WEP' to be advice about configuring WEP, personally. Layered security, folks; while WEP may be close to useless on its own, it can serve its use in that you have to use the specific tools to crack it; it's not wide open like a non-WEP link would be; at least then you can say you made an effort to secure your AP if someone uses your AP and internet to crack a bank's servers; someone with a wide-open AP might be liable in that case.