[icon-discuss] Re: Connecting icon to wireless network
- From: Christopher Moore <christopher.h.moore@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:28:38 -0500
Success! I think Jason hit upon the answer. When you input a key on the
Icon, it needs to be in hexadecimal.
My Westell Router allows me to input the keys in ascii. Before you can
input ito the Icon you need to convert it to hex digits. a 64-bit wep
key would be five ascii characters. Here's the output of a python
command I ran on the Icon to convert "hello" (a possible WEP key) to
hex.
Script started on Sun Feb 25 20:03:12 2007
w1gm@riley:~$ ssh root@icon
root@icon's password:
root@icon:~$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#2, Dec 1 2006, 11:54:25)
[GCC 3.4.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> "hello".encode("hex")
'68656c6c6f'
>>>
root@icon:~$ exit
Connection to icon closed.
w1gm@riley:~$ exit
exit
Script done on Sun Feb 25 20:11:27 2007
I'll be able to sleep better tonight knowing that someone won't be
sitting outside my house using my unsecured network <grin>.
Chris
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:32:46AM -0500, Jason Castonguay wrote:
> Hey Chris and others.
>
> I have a Belkin router and have successfully gotten my Icon to connect
> with 128-bit WEP. When you enter the key into the Icon, be sure it is
> the hex key and not the ASCII version. I never knew about the "ASCII
> version" until I was configuring some other device to connect to my
> router and it asked what kind of key it was. It took me a while to
> figure out the hex is the one I wanted since that it was the router gave
> me.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> --
> Jason Castonguay <jcast@xxxxxxxx>
>
>
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