Comment 105 for bug 339313

Thanks Aurelien for the comments. There is more to this sad tale......! I bought my laptop to work on Monday after the successful authentication at home on my 'pseudo' work (WEP) network - and it STILL would not authenticate! Then I remembered that I had a Linksys USB wireless NIC at home, so I decided to give that a try. It shows up as wlan0, and after a couple of (small) changes in the configuration at home, it successfully connected to my WPA network. As it is 11b/g, of course, it is also faster than the embedded IPW2100, so a bonus. That proved that it worked as a device - ie driver; supplicant; manager chain was all good. I bought my laptop in to work this morning - plugged in the USB and it immediately connected to the WEP network. Success at last! So it looks as though there is something very odd about the combination of (work) network authentication and the ipw2100 driver since everything works with the Linksys USB device.

Now to answer your question - and first with a question? Where did you get your included screenshot from? Which program / command gives you that dialog? I have never seen such a screen. Recall that I am now using Wicd 1.7.0 and NOT Network manager. In that application, there is a 'Properties' option that offers WEP(Passphrase) and WEP(Hex[0-9/A-F]). I presume I have connected with the WEP(Hex...) option where I have entered key#1 E235485511. However, I see that I have ALSO entered the passphrase - 12345 - in the WEP(Passphrase) option. If I try to remove either, I get a warning dialog that the "network requires encryption to be enabled".

I'll send a couple of screenshots that might show what I mean. Thanks again for taking the time to respond.