Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

[Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu>]

Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Debian Lenny on a Dell Vostro laptop which has a ipw3945
> wifi card.
>
> The card is recognised by the software and it even works somehow  (I can
> see all the wifi networks in my building using wifi-radar). But whatever
> I do I cannot get a  (DHCP) ip address from my Zyxel AP which is using a
> WEP key (and it did when I still used Windows Vist so I know for a fact
> that it is possible). 
>
> Does anyone have any idea of how to get this card talking to my WEP AP?
>
> TIA
>
> Some maybe useful info:
>
> ***************** 
> /etc/network/interfaceses:
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
Did you install network-manager and network-manager-(gnome|kde)? If so, 
the above two lines is all that you should have in /etc/network/interfaces

nm-applet GUI will let enter all the options needed, including WEP key.

Sarunas Burdulis