Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:34:11 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant and WEP.... Message-ID: <1128173651.1231.4.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <433DEF54.7070201@computer.org> References: <433D5215.6010101@computer.org> <20050930184537.GA3665@teardrop.org> <433DA1CF.7020502@computer.org> <20050930210541.GA11841@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <433DAE00.4090602@computer.org> <20050930222442.GA20004@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <433DEF54.7070201@computer.org>
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On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 21:07 -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> Ah... hex *keys*... plural!! I should use all 4 of them? I had been
> using just the one declared as the default key to tx. I have attached a
> screenshot of what a linksys does when you setup WEP. Give it a
> cleartext passphrase and it generates 4 hex keys. On some systems you
> can enter the passphrase... others I've had to enter the 'default' key.
> Never thought to try all four keys at once. Is that what you think I
> should do?
>
> > How are you entering
> > your hex keys? The examples are a bit unclear, but digging around in
> > the code it looks like unquoted strings are assumed to be hex strings.
> > They should not be prefixed by 0x.
>
> I'll try them in the above format (I was prefixing with 0x). I'm not in
> the office but will try my home AP.... BRB....
>
> Whoa!!! That's IT!!!
> Am I the only person who couldn't figure that out???
> You must use all 4 hex keys and specify which is the default.
>
No, you don't -- at least on -CURRENT of week or two ago following
wpa_supplicant.conf works quite well:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="SillySSID"
scan_ssid=1
priority=5
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0=0123456789abcdef0123456789
wep_tx_keyidx=0
}
--
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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