[Gllug] Wi-fi keys

[Dylan]

Hi All,

I'm trying to get a friends new laptop connected to his wifi and am having 
trouble with the WEP key [0]

Basically, there are three Linux laptops which have no problems accepting and 
using the passphrase (which is about 40 characters) but Vista [1] seems to be 
insisting on the 13 character ASCII verion. I've found plenty of places 
online to generate random keys, or map ASCII to the HEX, but had no luck 
finding out how to get the ASCII key from either the passphrase or HEX 
string.

Does anyone know of the method, or a site/app which will do it for me, or even 
better of a way to get Vista to act like a decent OS and accept a passphrase?

Thanks

Dylan

[0] Yes, I know - he should be using using WPA but there's no telling some 
people!
[1] Oh YUK - how could he?
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