Problems hitting Airport Extreme Base Station with WEP
I'm trying to connect to an Airport Extreme Base Station using WEP. I am
trying to connect from an iBook rev2.2 using the old wireless card -- I
can connect fine without WEP.
My interfaces file has the following stanza:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.1.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.0.1.1
up iwconfig eth0 essid clw
up iwconfig eth0 enc <password>.
First of all its difficult to find out what the key is as I understand I have
to try and extract the hex key. I dumped the config files after changing
my base station from 40bit WEP to 128bit WEP and found that the only
differences were:
(128bit)
<key>raWE</key>
<data>
kcpW10XKkLsUv/UJYg==
</data>
<key>raWM</key>
<integer>2</integer>
(40bit)
<key>raWE</key>
<data>
kcpW10U=
</data>
<key>raWM</key>
<integer>1</integer>
Any ideas on how to extract the keys? I've tried using these keys, but I
get errors (obviously, I suppose, since they are the wrong length...):
# iwconfig eth0 key kcpW1OU=
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "kcpW1OU=".
Thanks,
Rory
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Rory Campbell-Lange
<rory@campbell-lange.net>
<www.campbell-lange.net>
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