[Wylug-help] NdisWrapper nearly working - was madwifi ath_pci config problems on Sony Vaio

[david flower]

i believe you would need to use iwconfig ath0 key open <wep key>
though i haven't actually checked this out for myself

On 11/17/05, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 11:42 am, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> >
> Okay, so I've given in with madwifi (madwifi.org.being down hasn't
> helped) and gone for NdisWrapper.  I've installed the RPM's and
> followed the installation instructions and all goes fine provided I
> don't want to use WEP.  If I don't set the WEP key on Linux and disable
> WEP on the AP all's fine, but when I enable WEP on the AP and run
>
> iwconfig ath0 key restricted XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX
>
> where the key matches the one in the AP and the one in XP, it no longer
> works.  Anyone know why?
>
> Also, the instructions tell me to
>
> depmod -a
> modprobe ndiswrapper
>
> to load modules, which work, followed by
>
> ndiswrapper -m
>
> to add it to modprobe.conf, and to add 'ndiswrapper' to /etc/modules to
> make it permanent.
>
> The problem is that the line added to /etc/modproble.conf has 'wlan0'
> instead of 'ath0' but this doesn't seem to make any difference.
> Also /etc/modules doesn't even exist.
>
> What do I need to do to get this sorted?
>
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> Gary Stainburn
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