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| Weblog: | Ubuntu Linux 5.04 + notebook + WiFi = Works! | |
| Subject: | Is your WIFi access point uses WEP? | |
| Date: | 2005-04-22 07:10:39 | |
| From: | maximdim | |
| I cannot get my notebook with Ubunty to connect to wireless no matter what I try - card (Lucent Orinoco) seems to be recognized but failed to obtain ip address from DHCP... | ||
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I have a Dell Inspiron 4100 with an Orinoco Gold card that works flawlessly with Fedora but would not work with Ubuntu at all. I always enter the WEP key in XP and Fedora in ASCII but the AP and card will accept ASCII or hexidecimal.
It finally dawned on me to try hexidecimal and it worked.
If you're not deep into binary, hexidecimal, etc., you can convert the ASCII WEP key to hexidecimal here:
http://centricle.com/tools/ascii-hex/
Simply enter the ASCII string and click Translate. Copy the hexidecimal WEP key down and enter it into Ubuntu.
Hope this helps and good luck with Linux.
Rick