I found a small perl script that generates a wep key from a passphrase.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Perl script to convert a passphrase to a WEP key.
# By Aki Mimoto
use strict;
@ARGV or die "Usage: $0 passphrase\n";
print generate_key( @ARGV ), "\n";
sub generate_key {
# --------------------------------------------------
require Digest::MD5;
return substr Digest::MD5::md5_hex( substr( shift() x 64, 0, 64
) ), 0, 26;
}
I saved the script as /usr/bin/wep and added the following to my
ifcfg-wlan0:
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=`/usr/bin/wep passphrase`
Works perfectly.
This is with a Belkin 54G pc-card using ndiswrapper btw...
Cheers,
John...
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:47, Kevin Saenz wrote:
> I think the problem is accepting strings, and I couldn't be stuffed
> getting it to work.
>
> >On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 13:44, Kevin Saenz wrote:
> >
> >
> >>1. you can't use WEP. (Really who in their right mind would use it
> >>anyways) IPSec kicks arse.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >ndiswrapper supports WEP on my Broadcom card, so I'm not sure that
> >you're pointing the finger at the right party.
> >
> >
> >
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