Wireless won't work with WEP

[jdudley2]

I'm trying to set up my unstable Debian laptop for Wireless networking. I have ndiswrapper set up and working. I can use wireless as long as I turn off the encryption. The problem is, when I set the WEP on the router, I can't get Linux to do anything with it.

I use iwconfig wlan0 key MYKEY to set the key. Running iwconfig reports that the key is being used. But when I run ifup wlan0, it keeps trying to do DHCP, but to no avail.

Another thing I don't understand is that when I set the WEP on the router, iwconfig no longer lets me change the essid. It goes to "off/any", and stays like that.

I am using kernel 2.6.10. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[designbydave]

fedora comes with a gui that you can set the ssid and wep key. in there it tells me to input the wep key like this: 0xWEPKEYHERE . maybe its the same for you?

[jdudley2]

Thanks for the idea, but I don't have Fedora.

I figured it out, though. I ended up setting it to open instead of restricted. Don't know why it worked, but it did.

[swemic]

It's because that Restricted relies on WPA as well, not just the WEP key.
So if you have not implemented WPA you should always set your Wireless to Open Network.