Re: network manager cannot connect to hex network

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 16:15 -0700, colin williams wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with network manager. When I choose to connect to a
> > network and type in the hex key the connect button never lights up.
> > I can manually connect to the network using iwconfig and the key.
> > Anybody have a work around?
> One thing I would do is not use a hex key (I assume yo mean a WEP key).
> I would use a 13 character  ASCII key.

All well and good if you have control of the WAP...

One subtlety: The hex key field in nm-applet does not want the '0x' prefix 
for the key.  It is assumed.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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