Accessing a WEP-secured wireless network

[Jason Shein]

James Knott wrote:

> William O'Higgins wrote:
>
>> I have been scouring the net unsuccessfully for a tutorial on accessing
>> a WEP-secured wireless network.  I have seen a bunch of utilities for
>> cracking them, but I am a legitimate user, and as such I have the essid
>> and the key.  I just don't know how to connect.  I hate having to boot
>> into Windoze for its networking abilities -- it's just wrong!
>>
>> Under Windoze I have configured a profile for the network, and once the
>> wireless card has established a handshake I have to go to a web page
>> (I'm automatically redirected) where I enter a personal password.  This
>> is bound to be familiar to someone - can I get a pointer or two?
>> Thanks.
>
>
> It's generally not difficult to connect using WEP in Linux.  I've done 
> it with both Red Hat & SuSE. What problems are you having?
>
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kwifimanager allows for eaily reconfiguring the interface on the fly. It 
also keeps up to 4 saved configurations with a default configuration 
that will load on startup.

http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net


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