wireless connection issue

[G.]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
> 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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I have connected tons of times with ubuntu using 10 character strings.
 I have not been able to get into the router web interface.  I think
the sign in name is not the phone number, which is what the
instructions say it is.  The landlord probably does not have a clue
about this.


gary