Openmoko Bug #2030: Cannot connect to WEP network

[Michael Shiloh]

Werner Almesberger wrote:
.
> 
> The canonical way of running iwconfig for WEP would be something like
> this:
> 
> # iwconfig eth0 key A4BEB3B8EC essid xyz
> 
> Two things are important here:
> 
> - the key must be in hex. iwconfig will not do anything useful if
>   the key is given as a string.

A handy ascii string to hex converter is here:

http://centricle.com/tools/ascii-hex/

Although it annoyingly prints %20 instead of a space. I'm sure better 
examples can be found on the web and anyone can write their own in any 
language of their choice.

> 
> - the ESSID must follow the key.
> 
> If an incorrect key was set, please stop all activity on the interface
> for at least two minutes (i.e., killall udhcpc and ifconfig eth0 down),
> then issue the correct iwconfig command and retry.