Openmoko Bug #2030: Cannot connect to WEP network

Angus Ainslie angus.ainslie at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 18:51:54 CEST 2008


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org>wrote:

> It works perfectly, but it doesn't do what you might expect:
> most access points use a hash algorithm to turn that text string
> into the hex numbers we all love. Unfortunately, iwconfig just
> uses the string "as is".
>

Of course that's the way it works if your AP is set to use passphrase mode.
If your AP is set to use an ascii key ( and you use the correct length ) it
should all work .

I guess we have different expectations of our APs :)

Angus
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