[OSX-Users] Re: $ in WEP password

[Chris Andrews]

I've also managed this trick by beginning the password 0x, instead of $.

Chris

On 14 Jan 2010, at 11:53, Marcus Cobden wrote:

> 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.
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> On 14 Jan 2010, at 11:33, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>> -- 
>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
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>> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
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>> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
>> University of Southampton. 
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