[CentOS] Wifi WEP / Cisco aironet wireless internal card 802.11b

Guillermo Garron guillermo.fedora at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 15:33:20 UTC 2006


On 8/10/06, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:25:57PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a IBM ThinkPat T30 a Cisco Aironet wireless internal in the
> > laptop 802.11b only.
> >
> > It works great with open Acess points, but when i try to connect to
> > encripted ones.
> >
> > I got the dialog box asking for the passphrase 128 bit, I enter it and
> > after that i receive the dialog box again!
> >
> > Maybe my card do not support WEP or I am doing something wrong?
>
> Your wifi card is supposed to support WEP. However, make sure that
> is what you are using, cause it won't support WPA.
>
> As a side note, I have noticed some WEP incompatibility between
> different manufacturers when using WEP keys longer than 54 bits.
> That also might be your problem.
Thank you very much, BTW how can I find the driver?
thanks.



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