Werner Almesberger wrote: . > > The canonical way of running iwconfig for WEP would be something like > this: > > # iwconfig eth0 key A4BEB3B8EC essid xyz > > Two things are important here: > > - the key must be in hex. iwconfig will not do anything useful if > the key is given as a string.
A handy ascii string to hex converter is here: http://centricle.com/tools/ascii-hex/ Although it annoyingly prints %20 instead of a space. I'm sure better examples can be found on the web and anyone can write their own in any language of their choice. > > - the ESSID must follow the key. > > If an incorrect key was set, please stop all activity on the interface > for at least two minutes (i.e., killall udhcpc and ifconfig eth0 down), > then issue the correct iwconfig command and retry. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
