On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:43:16PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> don't use weconfig, jusr use:
> 
>     ifconfig wi0 nwid froghill_w nwkey 0xaaaaaaaaa

Christos,

Thanks for the suggestion - I tried this but ended up with the same
symptoms -

=== WEP Disabled ===

[root:latimer] /root # ifconfig wi0 nwid froghill_w -nwkey  
[root:latimer] /root # ifconfig wi0 up                      
[root:latimer] /root # ifconfig wi0                         
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        nwid froghill_w
        powersave off
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect adhoc
        status: active
        inet 192.168.123.99 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.123.255
        inet6 fe80::203:2fff:fe01:5064%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xc

[root:latimer] /root # ping 192.168.123.254                 
PING smc.wlan.froghill.net (192.168.123.254): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.123.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=9.168 ms

=== WEP Enabled ===

[root:latimer] /root # ifconfig wi0 down                               
[root:latimer] /root # ifconfig wi0 nwid froghill_w nwkey 0xaaaaaaaaaa 
[root:latimer] /root # ifconfig wi0 up                                 
[root:latimer] /root # ifconfig wi0                                    
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        nwid froghill_w nwkey 0xaaaaaaaaaa
        powersave off
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect adhoc
        status: active
        inet 192.168.123.99 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.123.255
        inet6 fe80::203:2fff:fe01:5064%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xc

[root:latimer] /root #  ping 192.168.123.254                           
PING smc.wlan.froghill.net (192.168.123.254): 56 data bytes
^C
----smc.wlan.froghill.net PING Statistics----
15 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss


The access-point is an SMC Barricade and the key is definitely entered 
corectly at both ends.

Paul