On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:13, Adam Done wrote: > I have been setting up my wireless using apples airport. So far I have > been able to access the base station with an open network but when I try > to access with a close network and 40bit encryption I am locked out. > > > in the /etc/network/interfaces > wireless_essid net-name > wireless_key s:password xxxxx > > but when I do restart the network interfaces I get this error > > # /etc/init.d/networking restart > Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. > Reconfiguring network interfaces...Error : unrecognised wireless request > "xxxxx" > done. > > > I am at a loss to access a close protected airport base station. I did > a man iwconfig to learn how to use the password. Does anyone have any > good sujestions? > > -Adam >
I had a similar problem with my iBook 500 with graphite base station using static connection and 40bit encryption. The "wireless_key s:xxxxx" line always gave me an error. I don't know if it was too old firmware or what. My solution was to open the Airport Admin program in OS X to configure the base station. Click where it says "password" to see what the password key is in hex. Then change the wireless_key line to "wireless_key ABCDEF0123", rather than entering as a string. Also, don't know if it matters, but my interfaces file uses "wireless-key" rather than "wireless_key". James
