Cannot get WEP working for Dell E1505 laptop

[srivatsava]

HI

I have been trying to get my wireless working with WEP but with no success.

I have the 2.6.19-rc5 kernel. The IEEE80211 is kernel inbuilt version. I have installed wireless-tools package. I have installed the ipw3945 package.

My wireless internet works. I am able to connect to my home network if i disable the wep key. But when i turn on WEP on my router this is the error that i get.

/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start

* Starting eth1
* Configuring wireless network for eth1
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
* eth1 does not support setting keys

I have the ieee80211_crypt_wep option selected in my kernel configuration.

Could someone please help me out here? Thanks in advance.

[phobos13013]

Did you emerge wpa_supplicant? Did you enable the IEEE802.11i CCMP and TKIP modules into your kernel as well?

Heres the complete guide for ipw3945
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw3945

It sounds like you have got the basics of that working though. Then theres the Wireless setup wiki...
Did you follow that too?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup
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[srivatsava]

I already have wpa_supplicant. I tried to compile the WEP IEEE option as a module. I recomplied the kernel and tried modprobing the WEP module This is the error i am getting.
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Serenity sri # modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep
FATAL: Error inserting ieee80211_crypt_wep (/lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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when i dmesg i get this
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Serenity sri # dmesg|tail
ieee80211_crypt_wep: Unknown symbol crypto_free_tfm
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ieee80211_crypt_tkip: Unknown symbol crypto_alloc_base
ieee80211_crypt_tkip: Unknown symbol crypto_free_tfm
ieee80211_crypt_wep: Unknown symbol crypto_alloc_base
ieee80211_crypt_wep: Unknown symbol crypto_free_tfm
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Any thoughts? Any advice short of re-installing everything?[/code]

[phobos13013]

One thing confusing me is that in your first post you have eth1 as your wireless controller, but in the dmesg it is referring to eth0. Do you have net.lo linked to eth0 or eth1? Im not quiet what is going on there though.
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[srivatsava]

It is eth1. The error message is the same as i posted except replace eth0 by eth1.