[Bug 339313] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty: Cannot Connect To Wireless Network with WEP shared key

[Mike Weaver]

Thanks Aurelien for the comments. There is more to this sad tale......!
I bought my laptop to work on Monday after the successful authentication
at home on my 'pseudo' work (WEP) network - and it STILL would not
authenticate! Then I remembered that I had a Linksys USB wireless NIC at
home, so I decided to give that a try. It shows up as wlan0, and after a
couple of (small) changes in the configuration at home, it successfully
connected to my WPA network. As it is 11b/g, of course, it is also
faster than the embedded IPW2100, so a bonus. That proved that it worked
as a device - ie driver; supplicant; manager chain was all good. I
bought my laptop in to work this morning - plugged in the USB and it
immediately connected to the WEP network. Success at last! So it looks
as though there is something very odd about the combination of (work)
network authentication and the ipw2100 driver since everything works
with the Linksys USB device.

Now to answer your question - and first with a question? Where did you
get your included screenshot from? Which program / command gives you
that dialog? I have never seen such a screen. Recall that I am now using
Wicd 1.7.0 and NOT Network manager. In that application, there is a
'Properties' option that offers WEP(Passphrase) and WEP(Hex[0-9/A-F]). I
presume I have connected with the WEP(Hex...) option where I have
entered key#1 E235485511. However, I see that I have ALSO entered the
passphrase - 12345 - in the WEP(Passphrase) option. If I try to remove
either, I get a warning dialog that the "network requires  encryption to
be enabled".

I'll send a couple of screenshots that might show what I mean. Thanks
again for taking the time to respond.

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Kubuntu Jaunty: Cannot Connect To Wireless Network with WEP shared key
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339313
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