wireless connection issue

[Colin Law]

On 14 June 2011 21:24, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 14 June 2011 19:00, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> 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.
>
> In that case I am likely mistaken.  I am going on the personal
> experience that I could not get this to work and had to use the hex
> string for WEP.  Is there a consensus on this issue?

Further to this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy states:
"A 128-bit WEP key is almost always entered by users as a string of 26
hexadecimal (base 16) characters (0-9 and A-F). Each character
represents four bits of the key. 26 digits of four bits each gives 104
bits; adding the 24-bit IV produces the final 128-bit WEP key."

I do know that a WPA key is generally entered as a string however.

Colin