Enabling WEP for DWL-650 on Debian (Woody)?

[jkl]

Totally new to Linux, I decided to take the plunge. I bought a new hard drive for my Sony VAIO laptop, downloaded the Debian (Woody) CD image, and proceeded to install. Didn't need to recompile any kernels or the such: it seems the DWL-650 was supported by Debian (Woody) out of the box. Way to go, Debian!

Since the net adapter is a PCMCIA card I enabled PCMCIA support when running the Debian setup. My adapter seems to be working: the LED is on when it operates. I believe the more convincing evidence is that when my nearby Windows XP laptop is using the WLAN, the linux console gets absolutely swamped with the following message:

eth0: Undecryptable frame on Rx. Frame Dropped.

My diagnostic of this problem is: the device driver for the pcmcia wireless card is working, but it doesn't have the WEP passwords necessary to talk with the WLAN.

Unfortunately I don't know what other detail to include, but I'm more than willing to add info here as necessary.

So my questions are:

1) seeing as I'm _almost_ there, without having to recompile any kernels or anything, is there a simple configuration setting I'm missing to get WEP to work?

2) No matter what console I log in on my new Linux box, I get the "eth0: ..." message in copious quantities. Can I convince the kernel to just scream on /dev/tty0, so I at least can edit files without the constant barrage of messages?

[jwf45]

I have the exact same situation. (though Im not sure how to even see the eth0 or eth1
devices.) Anyone with any ideas out there?

[Andre W]

I had a similar problem a few years back with PCMCIA ethernet cards.

I upgraded kernels, and presto.

If it is just WEP, then check /etc/network/interfaces

for

wireless_essid [snip]
wireless_keymode open
wireless_key1 [snip]
wireless_key2 [snip]
wireless_key3 [snip]
wireless_key4 [snip]
wireless_defaultkey 1

and add your parameters as needed

HTH