Wireless Key and Encyption

[Reinhard Sy]

Am Samstag, den 18.12.2004, 08:47 -0600 schrieb Satish Balay:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Reinhard Sy wrote:
> 
> > I have the following options for  Network Authentication: 
> > Open System
> > Shared Key
> > Legacy 802.1X
> > WPA with Radius
> > WPA-PSK
> > 
> > Which one I should use ? 
> 
> Open System
> 
> > 
> > And for Data Encryption I can use:
> > 64 bits WEP
> > 128 bits WEP
> > 152 bits WEP
> > 
> > What is the right value to use ?
> 
> 64 or 128 bits WEP
> 
> For 64bit WEP - you would enter in a '10' digit hex number on the
> router - as well for eg -  in keys-ath0:
> KEY=0000000000
> 
> For 128bit - I think its 26 digits. For eg:
> KEY=ABCDABCDABCDABCDABCDABCDAB
> 
> If you are using a 'string' - instead of 'hex' - you would have (for
> either 64bit or 128bit)
> KEY=s:foobar

Now I have set the AP to Open System and 64 Bit. And then I have entered
the passphrase and see the hex-code in the web-interface of the AP. This
value I have added to the key line and it works perfectly.

Thanks for you help.

Reinhard