Hello!
I run Ubuntu from a live disk distribution , and although my wifi card is active and it detects the wifi network of my house , when i enter the WEP Hex Key , it refuses to connect , with no errors message so that i could figure out whats wrong...
I searched a little bit in the net and i see also other people having more or less the same problem , but i believe i am very close to the solution , since the wifi card is 'recognised' and the network is 'found'.
Any suggestions what to do?
Thank you in advance ,
Elias
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Hi!
You are sure, your network uses WEP, right?
How exactly did you enter that key? And what are the outputs of - iwlist eth1 scanning # if eth1 is your wi-fi device
and
in the console? (Note: I'd cover the key up, which is shown in the output of iwconfig.)
Greetings,
Nepomuk
Hi!!
Thank you for your quick reply , i tried those instructions you gave to me , in order to get a clue of what was going on , and actually succeded ( by chance ...) to connect to the internet through a LAN. I will stick with that for now and try to improve my understanding of Linux.
By the way , when i am asked for my password in the terminal ( while trying to install something ) , it seems i cant type anything after the prompt , and when i hit ENTER after 'typing' i get a 'regected password' error!! Any clues on that?
Thank you again!!!
Elias
As a general rule nothing shows up when you type after being prompted for a password. This is similar to dots/asteriks being shown in a password box in a graphical application. If it says password rejected then it means that the password was wrong.
Edward
EDIT: Instead of entering the HEX key, try using the ASCII version of it.
Thank you so much for both tips!!! As you can tell i am new to Linux and i must get used to new things and tricks even for the simplest procedures....
Thanks again!!!!
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