On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:12:14PM -0700, Bruce Miller wrote:
> They moved in June 2010 and have a new combination ADSL modem/wireless router
> supplied by Bell Canada. It is a "2wire Gateway" model 2701HG-G.
>
> I am using Kubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 and have brought the system up-to-date
> within the last 4-5 days. We have controlled for "keyboarding errors": each of
> us has read back the broadcast SSID and the WEP key on the router to match
> against the key entered in knetworkmanager.
>
> Do I have the parameters right for this kind of hybrid Bell modem/router?The
> settings are:
> Mode: Infrastructure
> MTU: Automatic
> Security: WEP
> Key type: Hex or Ascii (*_not_* a passphrase)
> Key: 26 decimal digits
> WEP Index: 1
> Authentication: Shared key
>
> Does anyone see an obvious error? or know of connection problems with this line
> of modem/routers?
I don't know anything about Ubuntu or knetworkmanager, but I can
connect to a neighbour's 2-wire 2701HG-G (Sympatico) with WEP
using wireless-tools on Debian.
01:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
chipset (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: hostap_pci
in /etc/network/interfaces:
auto wlan2
iface wlan2 inet dhcp
wireless-essid Dumbell
wireless-mode Managed
wireless-key restricted 1953-5479-3783-1532-8074-7384-49
Regards,
Howard E.