On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:58:13PM -0500, Mike Ellsworth wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> Yeah, I tried a 40-bit key first, but WinXP seemed to want 104 bits (I seem
> to hazily remember - this was last week). Anyway, I'll try 40 again.
> 
> Thanks.

Input the key in hex, not the phrase.

Older non-spec-compliant hardware is known to generate the actual wep keys
differently from the same passphrase

as for windows, just enter 13 digits for a 40 bit key, it'll figure it out.

-- 
Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
http://www.poptix.net                           GPG public key 0x01938203

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