Getting WEP to work with Linux

[Andrew Pollock]

Hi,

I've recently got a D-Link access-point and an Avaya wireless card for my 
laptop.

Both are capable of 64-bit WEP. The access point's management interface 
wants a string of 10 hex characters, and I input the same 10 character's 
into the Avaya card's management interface under Windows 2000 and 
everything works fine.

I'm trying to get it work under Linux, and I'm unsure of how to express 
the WEP key in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. Do I express it with the "s:" 
prefix or not? Do I delimit the 5 pairs of hex digits in any way? I notice 
that when I look at the interface with iwconfig, the length and the way it 
expresses the key is completely different to how I'm using to supplying it 
to the access point. I also can't see how to determine the number of bits 
of WEP I'm using in wireless.opts or with iwconfig.

Any pointers appreciated.

Andrew