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Wu

Member

Registered: 2009-12-27

Posts: 80

netcfg problem with wep shared key

hello guys,

I would like to connect to a wireless device with netcfg. The device has a WEP encryption with shared key authentication. I'm able to connect using the gnome nm-applet, but with netcfg i keep getting the "Wireless association failed" error.

My config file for netcfg:

CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection"
INTERFACE="wlan0"
SECURITY="wep"
ESSID="[essid]"
KEY="s:[password]"
IP="dhcp"

May the problem lie in the shared key authentication? I tried 

IWCONFIG="enc restricted"

but it still  doesn't work. I have an intel  3945 wireless card.

Any help is appreciated,
thanks.

compgenius999

Member

Registered: 2009-12-27

Posts: 6

Re: netcfg problem with wep shared key

All I know is that it seems to be failing with the pairing to the router, I also got the same error with my WPA router, so I gave up with netcfg and now I just use a shell script I made to use wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd on my card to get a proper connection set up.

Wu

Member

Registered: 2009-12-27

Posts: 80

Re: netcfg problem with wep shared key

what puzzles me is that
1) i'm able to connect to the same device if I set the open authentication,
2) I'm able to connect if I set the WPA protection, and
3) I'm even able to connect (with WEP and shared key authentication) using gnome nm-applet.

The only problem I have is with netcfg and iwconfig, so i'm asking if iwconfig has a specific problem with shared authentication and if there is a way to handle it.