Accessing a WEP-secured wireless network

Leigh Honeywell leigh-9JL22WV9E8YEaWwO4Jh2dQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 14 13:10:41 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 08:51, Austin wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 08:40 -0400, Noah John Gellner wrote:
> > If you are specifically talking about accessing U of T's wireless
> > network, there is a trick you might find helpful. When I enter the key
> > as text it doesn't work. So I enter it as:
> > 55:54:6f:72:6f:6e:31:68:6f:6d:65
> 
> If you're talking about iwconfig, to enter a key as text rather than
> hex, prepend it with "s:".
> 
> Austin

Sweet, a few new tricks to try at the Big U.  Still haven't managed to
get online either - I get the connection but like William can't
authenticate.

-Leigh

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