Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:52:52 +0100 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless networking in ad-hoc mode? Message-ID: <bbe90d1d0512071352p7e04d0b4n53d046655a366141@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051207213209.74FF583C02@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20051207213209.74FF583C02@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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> I used some ascii2hex converter that I found online to turn the wep key "1n4te"
> into "316E3474410D0B".
>From ifconfig(8) manual page (my emphasis):
wepkey key|index:key
Set the selected WEP key. If an index is not given, key 1 is
set. A WEP key will be either 5 or 13 characters (40 or 104
bits) depending of the local network and the capabilities of the
adaptor. It may be specified either as a plain string or as a
string of hexadecimal digits preceded by `0x'. For maximum
portability, hex keys are recommended; the mapping of text keys
to WEP encryption is usually driver-specific. ** In
particular, the
Windows drivers do this mapping differently to FreeBSD. **
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