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Mar. 5th, 2006 06:56 amIt would appear my 802.11x foo is not as strong as I had hoped.. I blame Apple.
Here's what I'm trying to do: setup an AP with the same SSID and key as another one. Both are plugged in to the same Layer 2 network, so should be all good maaate..
The problem lays in the issue of the key. The original AP is a Dlink of some sort.. the WEP key to get in to it is (let's say..) SMITH. When I connect to it with my Mac, I put it in as "SMITH", with quotation marks, and it all works good. The AP I'm trying to setup is a Linksys WRT54G, running bog-standard Linksys firmware. If I use the web interface to generate a WEP key from the passphrase SMITH, I get the same hex keys as if I put it into an application I have called xwepgen.app.. however when I then try joining the network using either the passphrase SMITH or "SMITH", it doesn't work. If I use the hex equiv, it works. The SSIDs are slightly different currently, so I know i'm joining the right one.
So dear readers, who know MacOSX better than I, wtf is going on?
Here's what I'm trying to do: setup an AP with the same SSID and key as another one. Both are plugged in to the same Layer 2 network, so should be all good maaate..
The problem lays in the issue of the key. The original AP is a Dlink of some sort.. the WEP key to get in to it is (let's say..) SMITH. When I connect to it with my Mac, I put it in as "SMITH", with quotation marks, and it all works good. The AP I'm trying to setup is a Linksys WRT54G, running bog-standard Linksys firmware. If I use the web interface to generate a WEP key from the passphrase SMITH, I get the same hex keys as if I put it into an application I have called xwepgen.app.. however when I then try joining the network using either the passphrase SMITH or "SMITH", it doesn't work. If I use the hex equiv, it works. The SSIDs are slightly different currently, so I know i'm joining the right one.
So dear readers, who know MacOSX better than I, wtf is going on?
