Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > BTW, I always intended to investigate that encryption key problem more. It > seemed to me to be a problem in the little app that handled the wireless NIC > config (I had no success at all trying to manually configure the config > file(s)). But perhaps it was a misunderstanding in how to specify the key. I > think there's some transform that's applied to a 104 bit key to get a 128 bit > key. Perhaps the Windoze config does that transform for you but the Linux one > requires you to do it yourself. I was 100% sure I was giving the correct key > at both ends also. If you do find the answer let me know (that laptop I was > using it with kind of died). > >From what I understand, the transformation is done on the card itself. I have always used the the exact HEX key for both Windows and Linux. There is a utility for Linux that will generate the HEX key from a pass phrase, but I don't remember what it is called right now. I normaly generate the key on the access point, cut and past the HEX to a text file, and put the file on a USB memory drive. I then take that to the system I want to set up, and cut and past again to set the key. It is a lot faster, and less error prone, then trying to type them in yourself. (I have done that too...)
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