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   Posted by: allatsea
   Member

   I'm on a very steep learning curve as a linux newbie but am managing to work my way through most of what I need. However, I'm admitting defeat when it comes to connecting my Aspire One A110 to my wireless network.

   I have an old D-Link DI-624 router which only supports WEP. I have MAC filtering enabled. I can connect the Aspire One without any problems as long as the WEP encryption isn't enabled. The WEP encryption is 128-bit and the only options I have on the router are for HEX/ASCII keys. I've tried both and can connect from my Windows PCs but not from the Aspire. I've tried rebooting the Aspire One between key changes but this doesn't help.

   I've installed all the Live Updates.

   At the moment, in order to connect the Aspire One, I'm having to leave my network unsecured with MAC filtering as its only protection. If anyone has any suggestions for getting it to work, I'd be very grateful. Alternatively, if I do need to replace the router, I'd be glad to know of one that definitely works with the Aspire One and Linpus Lite.

   Many thanks.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   Posted by: Peter
   Moderator

   WEP is hardly a secure protocol anymore. It can easily be cracked. For proper wireless security you will need a router that supports the WPA2 encryption method. Even WPA is no longer sufficent. It's time for a new router. Also, mac address filtering is largely ineffective as well. I won't detail how, but it is fairly easy to discover the MAC addresses of the computers on your network and then "spoof" said MAC addresses.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   Posted by: allatsea
   Member

   Thanks for the advice, Peter - much appreciated. I'm just concerned that a new router might also knock out my printer, which only seems to support WEP and which I've only recently purchased.

   Curiously, I'm playing with Ubuntu on a USB stick and booting up the AAO from that, it's able to connect with the WEP key to my network without any problem. It's obviously something to do with Linpus that's preventing the WEP connection.

   Many thanks for the advice, anyway.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   Posted by: fatfat
   Member

   My router is WEP encryption either, and my AA1 wireless has no problem for both 128bit HEX/ASCII setting. However, I think it does not support WPA-Enterprise network. Here is what I have done for my AA1 to connect to WPA-Enterprise network. Maybe you can try the same way.

   open a terminal.

   1. sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
   2. sudo /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant stop
   3. sudo vim /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
   4. ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
   ctrl_interface_group=wheel
   network={
   ssid="router ssid"
   scan_ssid=1
   key_mgmt=NON
   wep_key0="password"
   wep_tx_keyidx=0
   }
   5. sudo wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iath0 -d -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
   6. when the output of wpa_supplicant show GROUP_HANDSHAKE->COMPLETED, use dhclient get the network's configuration at another terminal with root privilege ("killall dhclient"; "dhclient ath0")
   7. now you can access the network with wireless.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   Posted by: akeh
   Member

   I had similar problems with WEP.
   The solution for me was to upgrade to the latest BIOS
   (3309). See http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/flashing-bios.html for how to upgrade the BIOS.
   Best Reg

   --akeh

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: leonardtj@gmail.com
   Member

   if your using wep you are better off not connecting switch to wpa2 aes problem solved.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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