I have an ancient Orinoco PCMCIA wireless card and an ancient Addtron AP. Both support 104/128 bit encryption. Both work happily together without encryption. What I want to do is turn on WEP (mainly to rudimentarily protect against wardrivers), but I am not succeeding.
Since I use PCMCIA, I added the following stanza to
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts:
zurich,*,*,*)
INFO="Zurich home"
ESSID="ZURICH"
KEY="s:abcdefgehi"
;;
This works in that `iwconfig` shows the device to be properly
configured after plugging in:
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"ZURICH" Nickname:"fishbowl"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:90:D1:00:CD:D9
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx
Power Management:off
Link Quality=62/92 Signal level=-35 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
As you can see, it found the access point and negotiated the 11 Mbps
link (yes, this is 802.11b). If I do not set the key in
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, the access point is not found. That's
a good sign.
However, I can't communicate accross the link. DHCP does not work,
and even after bringing up the interface manually, I can't get out.
The card happily flashes for transmitted packets, but the AP never
does, and the packets also don't make it into the AP's subnet.
I'm at a loss. Maybe you know something I don't, or maybe
I overlooked something?
Thanks for any help.
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