[PLUG] wireless issue/was on printer malfunction

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 23:13:47 UTC 2007


On 10/31/07, Bruce KIlpatrick <bakilpatrick at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> kurt braget wrote:
> > Hey, this is the first message I've ever left on PLUG, I was just
> waiting
> > for the right subject to come in on.... Anyways, thanks for letting me
> > eavesdrop.
> >
> > I installed feisty on my hp tx 1000, the wireless didn't, and I found a
> > thread on the Ubuntu forums that worked for me. Apparently you can just
> > install the dell drivers. Here's a link with more info:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=434946&highlight=bcm4310
> >
> > Took me about a half hour, but worked like a charm. Hope that helps.
> >
> > kurt
> >
> >
> Thank you Kurt.
>
> I have seen this before.  I have upgraded to Gutsy which supports the
> Broadcoms.  My problem is with signing on to my wireless network.  For
> some reason the router won't accept the WEP from this machine/distro...I
> think.
>
> Bruce


Dumb question Bruce but have you appended 0x to the WEP key when you're
entering it?  I got  caught by that using Fedora's network setup widget once
and was perplexed by why the key wasn't being accepted by the router.

Drew-



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