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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: John Frankish <j-frankish@slb.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iw connect syntax for wep
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 10:27:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305361659.3437.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <654DF80AD31A344E93DBCC6280BD6DEF19352F42@NL0230MBX08N1.DIR.slb.com> (sfid-20110514_091121_246970_E2FF9308)

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 07:01 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> The iw documentation and "iw --help" states the following for establishing a wep connection:
> 
> iw wlan0 connect foo keys 0:abcde d:1:0011223344
> 
> What command syntax is supposed to be used when connecting to an ap using a single wep code consisting of 13 hex pairs?
> 
> "iw wlan0 connect ssid keys 1:00112233445566778899AABBCC" does not work

13 hex pairs isn't a valid key. WEP keys are either 5 or 10 bytes.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-14  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-14  7:01 iw connect syntax for wep John Frankish
2011-05-14  8:27 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-05-14  8:38   ` Johannes Berg

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