Power Mac Wireless

[Jason Clinton]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>On Monday 13 October 2003 3:14 pm, Seth Dimbert wrote:
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>>If you're talking about an AirPort network, things are a little
>>complicated: Apple makes non-Apple machines enter a longer password than
>>Apple machines to connect... You need the Airport Admin Utility (on a mac)
>>to get this information.
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>In this case we're trying to connect an Apple to a mixed TCP/IP network, but 
>that still may be what I need.
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I sounds like Apple is doing something similar to what Linksys has done 
with some of their wireless products. The WEP key is in hexidecimal. The 
client software has a cute little GUI that lets you type in a base-62 
[A-Za-z0-9] password and then it converts it via a hash to the WEP key. 
I never discovered a way to go backwards. I had to set the Linksys WEP 
to some known password and then take the resulting HEX value and give 
that to everything else.