If I recall, WEP comes in two flavours. 40 and 128 bit. 40 bit WEP uses
a 5 character password. 128 bit WEP uses a 16 character password.

So, I think you mean KEY="s:12345" if you wanted that to be the same as
the Windows password with 40 bit WEP. Note the s in front of the actual
password to indicate that you're using a string instead of list of numbers
in hex. I think there should be samples of using other keys in
wireless.opts.

Hope this helps,
chris

On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 12:22 PM, Blake R. Swopes wrote:

> I'm trying to add a linux client to an existing windows wireless network,
> with 64bit wep. I can get a linux and win system to talk to each other in
> ad
> hoc mode without encryption, but when I try to test WEP, I can't ping.
>
> I'm using the latest pcmcia-cs and the included orinoco_cs driver. The
> card
> is orinoco silver. This should be able to use 64bit wep, right?
>
> In wireless.opts, I have KEY="1122334455". When I check iwconfig on the
> card, the encryption shows up as "1122-3344-55", is this correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Blake
>
>

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