Re: Re: WEP encryption and ndiswrapper
Angelo wrote:
> Jan Schledermann wrote:
>> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
> And if I turn off WEP, then I'm able to connect either way.
>
> I kind of figured someone else might be going through this because it's
> happening on both my desktop and my laptop. But then again, both
> machines have wirless chipsets with the Real Tek 8180 chipsets. The
> real strange thing is that they worked in Ubuntu.
>
> Angelo
I don't think that it is chipset related as I used a realtek 8xxx based wifi
card in my previous server. It worked ok.
My laptop uses a broadcom chipset. I just reinstalled it last week and
started out using the broadcom kernel modules included with the 2.6.18
kernel for the first time. That seriously sucked (lots of dropped packages
and slow speed).
I ditched the kernel modules and installed ndiswrapper again with the
Windoze drivers supplied by Dell. It worked first time with very good
performance, no errors or dropped packages.
I use MAC filtering, no broadcasting of ESSID, a 26 hex-digit WEP key
connecting to a Linksys WAG54GS WAP/adsl router.
I don't use dhcp on the wifi device but fixed IP's.
Do you see any disturbing / positive messages from ndiswrapper during boot
and/or in the log files?
Best regards
Jan
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