WEP key

Go into the Konsole,
KStartMenu > System > Terminal Program (Konsole)
Type in:
iwconfig --help

It will tell you how to set up wireless

Example:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "disaster-master" channel 11
I'm not at a MEPIS machine right now nor do I have access to one so that's as much as I can help you before I get home.
sorry
SAM

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Great, thanks. What's the difference between using the CLI & 'iwconfig' vs using the KNetwork dealie where I orig placed the WEP?

I'm not sure. You should configure your wireless using MEPIS Utilities. Go to
KStartMenu > System > System Configuration (Settings) > System Administration > MEPIS Utilities
From there click on Network, then use the wifi tab to configure your wireless, go to the status tab to restart your wireless device. Then open the Konsole (Press Alt+F2 and type konsole). Now MEPIS utilities isn't very good at connecting the wireless after you have set it up (at least not on my machine). So once your're in the konsole type the following commands:
user@1[~]$ su
Password: (type root password, cursor will not move)
root@1[user]# iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extension
eth1 no wireless extension
wlan0 blah blah blah
root@1[user]# dhclient wlan0

I used iwconfig to see which device is my wireless, then I specified which device to connect wirelessly to get an IP address.

Remember, it's always best to configure your wireless in MEPIS Utilities and then renew the IP using the Konsole.

If you want a Wireless Finder you're going to have to get kwifimanager in synaptic.
KStartMenu > System > Package Manager (Synaptic Package Manager)

Hope all works,
SAM

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dca, one of the odd (bad) things about the Mepis Control Center is that you must apply changes on any tab that you modify. So if you put in your WEP key in the WiFi tab, click on the Apply button before you go to the next tab.

Jon

Thanks again, for the assistance... Is KWifiManager better than the Mepsis utlities? Seeing as how my wife's PC has a NIC & WLAN card installed, only the WiFi connects to the network so maybe getting away from the MEPIS config dealie and using the KWiFi might be easier or better in the long run.

The interesting thing is my laptop running openSuSE 10.1 has the same problem when I use it at the house when WEP is enabled on the router...

I know that 'apply' thing all to well... In the onset I thought that was the mistake I was making... But, come to find out, other WiFi enabled computers trying to access running different distros have same issue when WEP applied to router...

Um, not on my system. It doesn't seem to connect to wireless networks. So I simply open kwifimanager for the purpose of finding networks and then I configure it with the method above with the MEPIS Utilities/Konsole. I took me a while to figure that combination out but it never has failed me yet.
SAM

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Got WEP to work in 64bit mode using ASCII... But now, when you start the PC, wireless on works on start-up a handful of times. Meaning, sometime you start it and the antenna icons on the task bar are glowing... Sometimes, not, either shutdown, start-up, and hope (in my wife's case) or manually go into Mepis Utils and restart it by hand???

Could you please rephrase that? I've read it three times and am still having a hard time contemplating it.
Thanks,
SAM

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