[OSX-Users] Re: $ in WEP password

[Marcus Cobden]

I don't remember where I found that out, but yes, the $ tells it that what follows are hex codes rather than plain text to be converted into a set of hex codes.

On 14 Jan 2010, at 11:33, Christopher Gutteridge 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?
> 
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