Wifi - Different WEP Key

Hello All,
probably a long shot, but does anyone know how to get the ipod touch to use a different key ID for WEP encryption?
Explanation:
WEP has 4 key IDs. That way you have four choices for when 1 of your keys happens to be compromised. Apple products assume you always use key id 1. The problem is that my company uses 2.

I may be wrong, but my WEP configuration on my Belkin pre-N displays the choice of WEP keys as radio-button choices, which would indicate to me that the router admin must choose which one to be active. i.e. a compromised key would indicate that the WEP key choice would need to be changed at the router, not at the client.
I'll watch for other responses.

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Matt Cooper1,
WEP Password, and type password means the Mac is seeing it as ASCII password not a hex.
Is your network using 128-bit or 40-bit encryption?
If using 40-bit the ASCII password should be 5 characters, and 128-bit 13 characters to avoid potential hashing issues.
This article discusses that in the "Multiplatform issue" and "Avoiding the issue" sections:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108058
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Hi:
I have been reading this forum and looking for WEP related topic however I still haven't solved my problem. So here is my problem and see if anyone from this forum can help.
I set my linksys to make WEP key mandatory. I used 128 bit key and was able to generate 104 bit key (26 hex digits). It works fine on my wife laptop (COMPAQ), it can communicate using this key. However it never works on my IBM/Lenovo T43P. The only difference is I am running Funk/Juniper Odyssey Client Manager software. Yes I have entered the 26 hex key properly and still doesn't work. It does work however if I disable the WEP key. Any idea what the problem is?
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If your one laptop is already working iwth same 28bits WEP key ..... i dont think so that there is any issue with router ......
You can configure the Odyssey Client Manager as per the settings in the router ....
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I do clearly remember easily retrieving the WEP key 2 or 3 years ago, maybe from OS leopard at the time. I don't quite understand why it's been made so difficult now. Was there a security issue ? then is there an Apple note summarizing those facts and recommanding steps for previously set networks ?
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if for the life of you cannot determine the WEP password no matter how hard you try. i found mine by going into keychain and clicked on show password and there was my wifi password
then you might as well just download the latest version of airport utility, write down all the important settings, and then use the reset button to erase everything and then reconfigure it from scratch. and then you will know your password.
while you are there, if you can turn on wpa, by all means turn it on

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If I try to iwconfig eth0 key XXXX-XXXX-XX or iwconfig eth0 essid WIFINAME key XXXX-XXXX-XX, no matter what combination I try, I get an error saying that it's an invalid argument for SET_ENCODE. I've check the Wiki and man pages for iwconfig, and can't seem to find any solution. Does anyone know why I can't put in a WEP key?
((Side note: everytime I've installed Arch, my wifi starts out as eth0 until I get connected and run pacman -Syu. Then I reboot and it shows up as wlan0, and my Atheros ethernet is eth0 or eth1.))

Thanks for a response. So this is a fresh-from-the-oven install. I usually get my wifi connection set up and then create my user and go about setting everything else up. Meaning I've been trying as root.
I can see the wireless network with iwlist scan and it shows up as encryption key: on. Also, I tried using each lib80211 mod or some combination thereof in my rc.conf. No dice.
Lastly, since I didn't include it before, here's the exact error I get when I try to assign a WEP key with iwconfig:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth0; Invalid argument.
UPDATE: I can set the key using [x] between key and XXXXXXXXXX. However, any combination I'm trying of essid and key/enc isn't showing up in iwconfig. No errors, but my iwconfig information isn't changing. It's progress... I think.
UPDATE #2: I can iwconfig eth0 essid linksys (the office next to us) and grab that one (I don't know their password ) and it updates iwconfig, but our own network doesn't update iwconfig when I run iwconfig essid. >.<
Last edited by mtcupps (2011-06-17 18:20:02)

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