[Gllug] Wi-fi keys

[Lesley Binks]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Robert McKay wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Robert McKay wrote:
> > >> perl -e ' my $str = pack("H*", "4d794865785061353577307264"); print
> > >> "$str\n"; ' MyHexPa55w0rd
> > >
> > > That can't be right since the hex key has many twoples greater than 0x7F
> > > and hence generated mostly unprintable characters:
> > >
> > > h??M????????????????????
> >
> > Not all keys have a printable ascii version. I guess yours doesn't. :/
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> >
> > There's probably some way to make vista accept the hex key. If not I
> > guess you'll have to change it everywhere to something else.
> 
> Not an option - and I'm not prepared to even consider it just to pander to 
> Vista. If it won't play nicely it'll have to bound to a wire. But it still 
> strikes me as stupid when considering free wi-fi in bars etc.
> 
> Dx
> 
> >
> > Rob.

Not sure the fault is with Vista ... sorry ... 
Mother runs the same and that connects okay to WPA and WEP routers.

As far as I recall WEP is a set of hex digits ...

Check your entry again?

Regards

L.


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