In article <20010703220149.A25435@vulture>,
Paul Chakravarti <pc000@passtheaardvark.com> wrote:

Sorry I have no clue then. You seem to be doing everything correctly.

christos

>
>=== 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
>