[OSX-Users] Re: $ in WEP password

[Ben Hodgson]

I've never come across this, however it's perhaps interesting to note that
when entering a non–WEP (e.g., WPA-*) key, OS X's UI doesn't let you type a
'$' as the first character of the password.

I have had problems connecting to some older WiFi access points using WEP
from my MBP though. I'll try this next time :)

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Hodgson
http://benhodgson.com/



On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Christopher Gutteridge <
cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> There's a wifi access point (A BT Hub) which I always have trouble
> connecting to; it fails DHCP and I get a "self assigned IP", and no router
> etc.
>
> I found an amazingly weird solution... putting "$" at the start of the WEP
> password fixes the issue. Anyone else encountered this?
>
> --
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>
> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>
> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
> University of Southampton.
>
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