What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open the WiFI settings
2. Choose a network which requires a WEP key
3. Notice that it asks for a "Password"
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected the dialog to ask me for the WEP key (a string of hexadecimal
numbers) or the passphrase which was used to generate the WEP key. There is no
"password" on WEP networks, so it is slightly odd to ask for one. I first
guessed it meant "passphrase", but it didn't work, but typing in the hex key
does.
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
xPUD 0.9.2 booting from live CD.
Please provide any additional information below.
This is not a high priority issue. Most people will probably figure out what is
meant by "password" even if one doesn't exist.
Still, it'd be nice if the input box actually silently accepted passphrases and
generated the corresponding hex sequence, since the hex keys can be hard to
remember and even harder to type in correctly when the password field only
shows black dots for letters. There is no standard for generating a WEP hex key
from a passphrase, but I've only seen two or three algorithms in common use, so
it would likely be easy enough to try them all and see which one gives a
working key.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by hacke...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2010 at 12:23
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
hacke...@gmail.comon 29 Jul 2010 at 12:23