Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:59:52 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant and WEP.... Message-ID: <433E9658.9040101@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <1128173651.1231.4.camel@RabbitsDen> 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> <1128173651.1231.4.camel@RabbitsDen>
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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
> 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
> }
>
Yes... you are correct. One is sufficient. I got a little over zealous
when entering keys.
I simply must have had the format of the hex keys incorrect all this
time. I must say, I have been trying to get WEP to work for an
embarrisingly long time. WPA-PSK and open networks gave me no trouble
though. But I tried for the longest time to get WEP going because thats
how I had things setup from 5.x (since WPA was not supported) and I
thought it would be easiest to just turn wpa_supplicant on without
changing the wLAN.
Anyways.... Thank you very much to all.
--
Regards,
Eric
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