Acer 3400 FC7 BCM43xx wlassistant wep

[typomaster]

Hi
I have an Acer Ferrari 3400 running FC7. I am pretty much a noobie, but I manged to install the lastest wl_apsta.o and bcm43xx-006. I also have installed wlassistant.

I am able to use wlassistant to scan the neighbourhood and see all the networks. I am able to connect with those that do not have any encription. I cannot connect to my LAN with has WEP. I have a Dlink router holding my lan together. The settings are open with a hex key. Windows connects without a problem, but FC7 will not connect. My router is listed in the scan and it correctly tells me it uses WEP.

My encription is 10-decimals. If I enter the decimals into Windows, it works, but not in FC7

Please forgive the typos...I am, after all, typomaster

typomaster

[typomaster]

Someone suggested that I use the prefix "0x" with the hexadecimal digits of the key. I am aware of this convention when using hex notation, but it only creates more errors. If I use it, the stderr reports an unknown command and gives my key as the problem.

I am aware of the covention of preceding acsii with "s:" This did not give an error, but it did not connect either.

if you run wlassistant from the console, you will see that it is using the iwconfig command. According to "man iwconfig", the default interpretation is in hex, I can not get it to work. I used a wep generator to generate both 64 and 128 bit keys in both acsii and hex.

None of them worked.