Hey, I just installed openSUSE 11.3 and I have a problem with wifi. Problem is not in a driver.
I see the list of nets available to connect to, but I choose my network and enter WEP and the password, network manager is connecting for a while and then he, again, offer me the password dialog. Password is 100% right! But I found out that the problem is in type of authentification. I have select box with only two types available to choose for WEP. 128 passphrase and “asci or hex 64 or 128 key”… But I need “WEP 40/128 bit key” which is not in the menu. I tried on another system (ubuntu) on another computer and to connect to this network and I HAVE TO have this security option set, with passphrase or hex I didn’t conected on ubuntu too. thanks for your help, I hope I won’t have to install this incredible system just becouse of wifi…
so I found out that the password shoud be written with the type “ascii or hex”, but it still doesn’t work… I am totaly helpless 
On 02/19/2011 12:36 PM, in crease wrote:
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> Hey, I just installed openSUSE 11.3 and I have a problem with wifi.
> Problem is not in a driver.
> I see the list of nets available to connect to, but I choose my network
> and enter WEP and the password, network manager is connecting for a
> while and then he, again, offer me the password dialog. Password is 100%
> right! But I found out that the problem is in type of authentification.
> I have select box with only two types available to choose for WEP. 128
> passphrase and “asci or hex 64 or 128 key”… But I need “WEP 40/128 bit
> key” which is not in the menu. I tried on another system (ubuntu) on
> another computer and to connect to this network and I HAVE TO have this
> security option set, with passphrase or hex I didn’t conected on ubuntu
> too. thanks for your help, I hope I won’t have to install this
> incredible system just becouse of wifi…
To connect with WEP, you need to have the hex 128 key, which is the same as “WEP
40/128 bit key”. The pass phrase will not work as openSUSE uses a different
conversion from phrase to key than does Windows. You can copy the key from the
Ubuntu system. To get the key, on the Ubuntu system,run the command
sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig
If you get a “command not found” message, then Ubuntu places that command in a
different location, and you will have to find it. If not in /usr/sbin, check in
/sbin.
i tried to find out some ascii to hex calculator and I found it.Then I entered the generated hex value, but again : it was configuring interface, then it again popped up the window for password… so I looked to the Ubuntu as you adviced me and the key there was exactly the same I got from generator, so, no change… I was not connected… interesting is, that I had achieved to connect to another wifi network, with hex key… but only twice… rest of the time, it did exactly the same as for the first network… so where can be the mistake? Isn’t it wrong installation of system, or some problem with driver?
On 02/19/2011 01:06 PM, in crease wrote:
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> so I found out that the password shoud be written with the type “ascii
> or hex”, but it still doesn’t work… I am totaly helpless
The conversion from ASCII to hex is more complicated than your simple try.
Have you read what I wrote? It seems not.
I looked on the key in ubuntu, and I’ve got the same value the ascii to hex gen gave me. Anyway I tried tu fill it in the field …hex… with no success as I wrote last time… So is there any way I can find out what’s the problem? Becouse system without network connection is practically useless for me. I just don’t want to give it up so soon…
On 02/20/2011 08:36 AM, in crease wrote:
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> I looked on the key in ubuntu, and I’ve got the same value the ascii to
> hex gen gave me. Anyway I tried tu fill it in the field …hex… with no
> success as I wrote last time… So is there any way I can find out
> what’s the problem? Becouse system without network connection is
> practically useless for me. I just don’t want to give it up so soon…
Set the network to be controlled by NetworkManager. After you have the network
applet in the lower-right hand corner of the screen, then click on it and select
“Manage Connections” On the screen that comes up, go to wireless and add the
details for your AP, including the WEP hex key. As you finish this, you will get
a pop-up for kwallet (KDE) or the Gnome keyring. You MUST allow that facility to
store the key. If you do not, you will NEVER get a connection. If you put the
info in correctly, you should now get a connection.
As noted, it’s possible to store pass phrases in a text file (do not select kwallet or Gnomekeyring). Although I wouldn’t recommend normally storing pass phrases that way, it might provide a way to verify and possibly try different keys than what is already stored. AFAIK what is displayed is the hash that is presented to the wireless router so modifying the passphrase this way might skip steps that could cause problems.
I’d also recommend you go into the wireless router and remove the MAC address registration and DHCP leases, especially if you move from OS to OS using the same wireless NIC sometimes unpredicatable things can happen. Force a new registration and see if that helps.
Also, take a look at your wireless router logs if it’s possible. You might find something useful there.
HTH,
Tony