Re: Access point fails with WEP

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In <44041df4$0$23284$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:54:56
+0000, Antony Gelberg <antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Navas wrote:

Try entering both keys in hex.

Ok. I didn't strictly do this. I entered a passphrase on the WAP which
generated a 26-character hex key. Is this different from entering that
26-character key directly?

Hard to say. Just try exactly what I wrote.

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