Hi

I am testing the live SL4.3 CD on a Dell Inspiron 6000 which requires an
ipw2200 wireless driver.  This bit seems to work but I am wondering
whether iwconfig supports 128 bit WEP. (wireless-tools-27-0.pre25.4.EL4)

I can configure my card and have entered it's MAC in the access point.  I
enter:

ifconfig eth0 nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn etc
iwconfig eth0 essid Whatever channel 1 key
XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX mode Managed ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

where the XXX... is the 128 WEP key and the xx... is the MAC address of
the access point.  All these are reported correctly by iwconfig, including
the bit rate.

Sometimes I can ping the ADSL modem behind the access point and even start
to login but generally after a few moments, the pings freeze and nothing
is connected.

man iwconfig implies, by the brevity of the key, that it only handles 64
bit WEP but, as I say above, the full key is reported by iwconfig eth0.

What is supposed to happen?  And if only 64 bit WEP is supported, how can
I upgrade to an iwconfig that supports 128 WEP?  I know there are issues
with kwifimanager under KDE 3.3 but I was hoping that the underlying
commands worked OK.

I have had this laptop working under Kubuntu but that tends to use the
latest drivers etc and KDE 3.4.  It would be nice to have it working under
SL4.3 which would make it much easier to manage my other (SL4.x) boxes.

Is there a later wireless-tools that will work with 128WEP?  Would I need
a later ipw2200 driver?  I see on the DAG repository there is version 26
wireless-tools but that is older than the current version 27...

Any clues?

TIA

John

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