Ubuntu and Wifi Trouble

[Elias Alhanatis]

Hello!

I run Ubuntu from a live disk distribution , and although my wifi card is active and it detects the wifi network of my house , when i enter the WEP Hex Key , it refuses to connect , with no errors message so that i could figure out whats wrong...

I searched a little bit in the net and i see also other people having more or less the same problem , but i believe i am very close to the solution , since the wifi card is 'recognised' and the network is 'found'.

Any suggestions what to do?

Thank you in advance ,

Elias

[Nepomuk]

Hi!
You are sure, your network uses WEP, right?
How exactly did you enter that key? And what are the outputs of

iwlist eth1 scanning # if eth1 is your wi-fi device

and

sudo iwconfig

in the console? (Note: I'd cover the key up, which is shown in the output of iwconfig.)

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[Elias Alhanatis]

Hi!!

Thank you for your quick reply , i tried those instructions you gave to me , in order to get a clue of what was going on , and actually succeded ( by chance ...) to connect to the internet through a LAN. I will stick with that for now and try to improve my understanding of Linux.

By the way , when i am asked for my password in the terminal ( while trying to install something ) , it seems i cant type anything after the prompt , and when i hit ENTER after 'typing' i get a 'regected password' error!! Any clues on that?

Thank you again!!!

Elias

[edwardrsmith]

As a general rule nothing shows up when you type after being prompted for a password. This is similar to dots/asteriks being shown in a password box in a graphical application. If it says password rejected then it means that the password was wrong.

Edward

EDIT: Instead of entering the HEX key, try using the ASCII version of it.

[Elias Alhanatis]

Thank you so much for both tips!!! As you can tell i am new to Linux and i must get used to new things and tricks even for the simplest procedures....

Thanks again!!!!