[Discuss] Wireless in Victoria

[stephen hawkes]

I have not verified it, but I have heard in passing that not all routers 
convert a pass phrase to a hex string in the same way. That's actually 
why I asked, my assumption was that the hex key was not provided, just 
the pass-phrase.

I have never had a problem with WEP.. as long as I enter it in all caps 
with no extra spaces :D. Who knows though, some routers are just a pain 
to connect to. I've had certain ones that I can not connect to with 
linux and the connection drops frequently in windows.

Hans-Peter Oeste wrote:
> Actually what I think that they give you is a  passphase.
>  
> I'm also running Ubuntu, with a card that requires a madwifi driver.  It
> works quite well mostly, I just seem to run into problems with encryption. 
> Heck, I can't even turn encryption on my access point at home and make it
> work.  And I know what the hex key is!  So what's more likely is that I'm
> not doing something correctly.  I use the key param with the hex key and
> iwconfig shows it so I'd assume that it's correct, but no worky.  I'll have
> to bash away at it some more.
>  
> Trying to turn one of my friends on to Linux, but it get's a bit difficult
> when you can't get onto a WEP network and you have the key....
>  
> Hans
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: stephen hawkes
> Date: 11/06/2007 8:40:24 AM
> To: discuss at vlug.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Wireless in Victoria
>  
> What card are you using? And how did you they give you the WEP key? A
> string of 26 hex characters is pretty long to write down correctly.
>  
> I'm using ubuntu and have an awful broadcom card and can get WEP to work
> fine.
>  
> Hans-Peter Oeste wrote:
>   
>> Is there a website that lists the places in Victoria that have free
>> wireless?
>>
>> I have used QV's wireless for the last year but ever since they've
>>     
> switched
>   
>> on WEP, I can't seem to connect with my Ubuntu laptop.  They give the key
>>     
> if
>   
>> asked, but I can't get it to work.  I've used about every parameter that I
>> can think of with iwconfig, but I've had no luck. So I thought I'd try a
>>     
> few
>   
>> other places before I take 'drastic' action and see if it's my machine or.
>>     
> .
>   
>> Hans
>> VE7OES.
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