From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F6bLo-0007nX-6j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:30:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k17MSdpL013637; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:28:39 GMT Received: from holstein.creativecow.net (holstein.creativecow.net [64.71.189.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k17MN67s008859 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:23:06 GMT Received: from [10.0.1.6] (24-205-252-45.dhcp.mrba.ca.charter.com [24.205.252.45]) by holstein.creativecow.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D172B9676 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:23:45 -0800 (PST) From: Eric Bliss Organization: CreativeCow.Net To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting to a WEP Airport router Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:23:16 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <49bf44f10602071240j737ddae9p47d8c1246de4862@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10602071240j737ddae9p47d8c1246de4862@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602071423.16392.eric@creativecow.net> X-Archives-Salt: 37b769ec-3c25-4ed9-9540-3a43eea32e5a X-Archives-Hash: 61bbad85d10a9110711571714edb21a3 On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:40 pm, Grant wrote: > Hello, my housing complex just switched to an Airport router and I > can't seem to connect. They are supposedly using WEP. There was a > 5-character psk at first and wpa_supplicant told me it was an invalid > key and it had to be at least 8 characters. They switched it to a > 13-character psk and I still can't connect, although I don't get the > invalid key error now. Does anyone know how to connect to a WEP > Airport router with Gentoo? Everyone else is using Windows and Mac > and they are connecting just fine. I've tried lots of different > configurations in wpa_supplicant.conf to no avail and all of my > software is up to date. > > - Grant > Well, this is, if not the right way, at least A way to do it... iwconfig eth1 essid "whatevertheairportnetworknameis" iwconfig eth1 key xxxx-xxxx-xx ifconfig eth1 up dchpcd eth1 That's the script I hacked out to connect to our local WEP encrypted Airport. Your milage may vary. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list