wireless connection issue

[Billie Walsh]

On 06/14/2011 12:47 PM, G. wrote:
> 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
>

Hate to butt into a conversation, but I would like to interject that 
(K)Ubuntu works just fine with a 10 character string in WEP.

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