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by cliff680

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I have a wireless AP that uses a 128-bit WEP encryption key. On most of my wireless cards that is fine. Unfortunatley, I have a card that wants a 104-bit (there is no 128 option) encryption key (both are 13 character ASCII keys). Of course when I type in the key from the AP it doesn't connect. The AP and the card are both 802.11 b/g. Any ideas on how to rectify this situation??
Thanx in advance.

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by joseph moore

1) Upgrade the drivers for the wireless card to the lastest version.
2) If that doesn't work, then your card doesn't support 128-bit encryption, and you will need a different card.

by cliff680

I tried that, it turns out that the encryption key needed to be only alphanumeric.....i had some "special characters" in there and that was stopping it. I had it working on different cards with those keys........

by cliff680

I tried that, it turns out that the encryption key needed to be only alphanumeric.....i had some "special characters" in there and that was stopping it. I had it working on different cards with those keys........

by plexer

Check out the 802.11b security faq found at
http://pod.homelinux.net/FAQ/802.11b_security.txt
especially:
[2.3.6.3] How Large is WEP Keys

104 bit wep and 128 bit wep are the same thing. So I would be checking your configuration and also looking for updates as there is still confusion due to it being called 2 different things.

Can you try 64 bit wep on them?

Cheers,

Ben

by cliff680

Very informative web site.....
I tried that, it turns out that the encryption key needed to be only alphanumeric.....i had some "special characters" in there and that was stopping it. I had it working on different cards with those keys........

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