Re: airport and encryption
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:13, Adam Done wrote:
> I have been setting up my wireless using apples airport. So far I have
> been able to access the base station with an open network but when I try
> to access with a close network and 40bit encryption I am locked out.
>
>
> in the /etc/network/interfaces
> wireless_essid net-name
> wireless_key s:password xxxxx
>
> but when I do restart the network interfaces I get this error
>
> # /etc/init.d/networking restart
> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
> Reconfiguring network interfaces...Error : unrecognised wireless request
> "xxxxx"
> done.
>
>
> I am at a loss to access a close protected airport base station. I did
> a man iwconfig to learn how to use the password. Does anyone have any
> good sujestions?
>
> -Adam
>
I had a similar problem with my iBook 500 with graphite base station
using static connection and 40bit encryption. The "wireless_key s:xxxxx"
line always gave me an error. I don't know if it was too old firmware or
what. My solution was to open the Airport Admin program in OS X to
configure the base station. Click where it says "password" to see what
the password key is in hex. Then change the wireless_key line to
"wireless_key ABCDEF0123", rather than entering as a string. Also, don't
know if it matters, but my interfaces file uses "wireless-key" rather
than "wireless_key".
James
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