set up wifi hotspot (share internet connection)

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 16:48:00 UTC 2013


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible that this is a bug in NM? Are there guidelines on how
>> the 'WEP 40/128-bit Key' or 'WEP 128-bit passphrase' passwords should
>> be constructed? I realize that the obvious issue in such cases is user
>> error, but I checked the passwords used multiple times.
>
> I don't know what the issue is, but it is a waste of time using WEP,
> which is easy to hack.  Use WPA.
>
Unfortunately when you set up an Adhoc hotspot, the only choices that
you get in both NM and Wicd is WEP or no encryption. I'd like to have
at least some encryption.

Liviu




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