wireless connection issue

[Colin Law]

On 14 June 2011 06:46, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 13 June 2011 10:05, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Right, did that.  Called Piggott.  I can not connect to that one at
>>> all.  I put in the correct password and it will not connect.  First
>>> time I tried NW manager demanded at 128 bit but they have just a WEP
>>> security setup, which has far fewer characters.  Not sure what that
>>> means.
>>
>> For WEP it should be a string of hex digits (0 to 9 and A to F)  26
>> characters if I remember correctly.  Some routers may allow a normal
>> string of words to be used and will convert this to the hex string, in
>> that case you need to get the hex string from the router to put into
>> NM.
>>
>> By the way WEP is not secure any more, someone with the right
>> knowledge can hack into your network.  You should change the router to
>> WPA.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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>
> It is 128 WEP and it is a 10 character code.  Not my router, this is a
> weekly rental belonging to a friend.

As I said earlier that is not the real wep code.  The short string
will only work, I believe, if you are using software supplied with the
router for Windows, so will not work in Ubuntu.  You must go into the
router web interface and on the security settings page you should be
able to view the full hex string.

Colin