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On 7/12/07, peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Robin > > Connected, thanks. I am using a 64-bit WEP key. My next problem is my > lappy does not seem to like that! > > The rule here appears to be however to ignore the little applet thing on > the screen, which still tells me I am not connected! One I started > playing with that everything scres up. > Yea i'm not really surprised, the drivers for that card are legacy and obsolete and don't play nicely. Although a lot of good work has been done to patch them up and keep them working they really need to go. The replacement is upstream in the wireless-dev.git tree but we are not scheduled for a merge to main line yet due to many blocking issues prehapse we will hit 2.6.23 or 24. Unfortanutatly i'm not doing very much to help with this as I have very little time to sit down and debug drivers and the project really needs the extra hands to clean these issues before kernel merge. -- Robin Cornelius http://www.byteme.org.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html