Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Jun 23 13:21:34 UTC 2008


Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
> That's partly right.  I read Mikkel's post as claiming that the '0x'
> prefix was required for NM, which is not correct.
> 
> s-c-n and friends have only one way to enter a key and no way to specify
> its type, so to distinguish hex from ascii, you need the starting '0x'
> character.  Otherwise ascii 'd3adb33f' and hex 'd3adb33f' would be
> indistinguishable.
> 
> NM WEP has the pulldown menu to specify the key type.  So you can choose
> whether the key you enter is a passphrase or a hex key.
> 
Thats what I get for trying to do it from memory. That is why I 
qualified it in my answer - I was not sure if I was remembering it 
correctly - I wasn't, so I am glad you corrected me.

Mikkel
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   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
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