apple i-book login to buffalo airstation

i've created a 5 letter password for my airstation. my PC laptop
logins fine, but my i-book via airport can't access the wireless
network via the WEP password. Please help!

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:35:40 -0700, onmyd@my-deja.com wrote:

>i've created a 5 letter password for my airstation. my PC laptop
>logins fine, but my i-book via airport can't access the wireless
>network via the WEP password. Please help!

Use the hex version of the WEP key instead of the ASCII version of the
key and it will work. However, you should not be using WEP as it's
one big security problem. Use WPA or WPA2.

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onmyd@my-deja.com wrote:
> i've created a 5 letter password for my airstation. my PC laptop
> logins fine, but my i-book via airport can't access the wireless
> network via the WEP password. Please help!

WEP has a problem in that there is no unique scheme for converting a passphrase to a key. You need
to observe the hexadecimal key that your password generates and enter that into the i-book instead
of the password.

On Sep 15, 10:33 am, Larry Finger <Larry.Fin...@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> on...@my-deja.com wrote:
> > i've created a 5 letter password for my airstation. my PC laptop
> > logins fine, but my i-book via airport can't access the wireless
> > network via the WEP password. Please help!
>
> WEP has a problem in that there is no unique scheme for converting a passphrase to a key. You need
> to observe the hexadecimal key that your password generates and enter that into the i-book instead
> of the password.

How do I observe the hexidecimal key?

<onmyd@my-deja.com> wrote:

> How do I observe the hexidecimal key?

If you are asking how to enter a hexadecimal WEP key on your iBook, that
varies depending on the version of Mac OS you are using. The following
Apple Support articles may be of help.

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106250>

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424>

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108058>

massello@newsguy.com (Neill Massello) hath wroth:

><onmyd@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>> How do I observe the hexidecimal key?
>
>If you are asking how to enter a hexadecimal WEP key on your iBook, that
>varies depending on the version of Mac OS you are using. The following
>Apple Support articles may be of help.
>
><http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106250>
>
><http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424>
>
><http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108058>

The Buffalo Airstation should display the WEP key in ASCII on the
"wireless security" configuration page. If not, use this Perl script
to guess the WEP key.
<http://www.wigle.net/jigle/wep.pl>
64bit WEP will be 5 ASCII characters or 13 Hex characters long.
128bit WEP will be 10 ASCII characters or 26 Hex characters long.


C:\> perl wep.pl test5

Converting ASCII string 'test5' to hexadecimal
using common wifi driver algorithms.

40 bit Prism II (D-Link, Apple)
key 0: 74 54 f9 6b 61
key 1: 4d 0f 6c dd 9f
key 2: 08 ed 52 9a 4a
key 3: d0 e7 59 cf 3a

104 bit Prism II (D-Link, Apple)
8c84110e3838216aee03e168adacb972
or for apple:
8c84110e3838216aee03e168ad

40 bit Hermes (Orinoco)
7465737435

104 bit Hermes (Orinoco)
74657374357465737435


C:\> perl wep.pl ihateradio

Converting ASCII string 'ihateradio' to hexadecimal
using common wifi driver algorithms.

40 bit Prism II (D-Link, Apple)
key 0: 83 48 ff f4 38
key 1: b2 67 0d 39 0c
key 2: 7d 9a 65 4a bb
key 3: 3d ac 2f 24 f9

104 bit Prism II (D-Link, Apple)
d49434d5242e0b23e8b985f89ae50df1
or for apple:
d49434d5242e0b23e8b985f89a

40 bit Hermes (Orinoco)
6968617465

104 bit Hermes (Orinoco)
6968617465726164696f

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