Re: netinst, wep key with spaces w/ patch
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:32:22PM +0000, Chad Miller wrote:
> I recently installed on a friend's network, which had a WEP key with a
> space in it. The installer worked, but it wrote a
> /etc/network/interfaces file that didn't work. After boot, the key was
> set to the substring up to and not including the space in the WEP key.
>
So you successfully got the wireless interface's WEP key set by entering it
into the netcfg screen that asks for it? That's been giving me grief for
ages. I have to switch to the second virtual terminal and manually set the
key with iwconfig.
What key length was it out of interest?
regards
Andrew
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