wireless connection issue

[G.]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
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That sounds like a viable option.  Somehow I missed this earlier.  I
will give that a try.

Thanks

gary