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theMerge
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 Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] WEP not working with bcm43xx |
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I've got my bcm43xx card working and it will do an unencrypted essid, but for some reason I can't get it to use wep encyption.
Is there some kernel options I don't know about?
Does this driver require special stuff to make wep work?
Thanks
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davidgurvich
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Which version of the chipset are you using? It could just be that the bcm43xx driver does not work well for that particular chipset. I have a 4318 wireless pcmcia card that does not work with the bcm43xx driver but does with ndiswrapper. |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Forget WEP anyway, it's like locking your door with sticky tape. Use WPA. |
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theMerge
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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SOLVED IT!
OK, so the problem was that the bcm43xx was not loading the ieee80211_crypt_wep module. I just added that to /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 and away we went!
Thanks again
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theMerge
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| PaulBredbury wrote: | | Forget WEP anyway, it's like locking your door with sticky tape. Use WPA. |
Don't I know it, but it's not my network 
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