Certainly, WPA is the way to go (though that's been cracked somewhat easily too using video cards' vector capabilities from what I hear). Regardless, there are WEP access points, and people do only know the passphrase. Do you suggest that this should go for iwconfig rather than netcfg? I technically agree. Ah, Daenyth's e-mail just came in. I can try to do something with the iwconfig guys, but honestly, adding passphrase support is pretty trivial and I must wonder if they haven't added it due to philosophical reasons. Guess I'll try get in touch with them and see what they say. -A"G"T On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Andrei Thorp <garoth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I was recently digging around in the netcfg code to figure out why my >> WEP passphrase wasn't working. As I expected, it is because iwconfig >> at the moment doesn't support WEP passphrase. >> >> Anyway, so I'd like to know the reason this has not been implemented >> in general. Is it because the netcfg devs want it in iwconfig and the >> iwconfig guys don't want to write this? Is it because no one has cared >> enough to do it? Should I go talk about this elsewhere? >> >> Anyway, I personally think that netcfg could use this feature, and >> that it'd be dead simple to implement. I figured I'd do it while I'm >> on break, but I wanted to confirm that this is indeed a feature that >> wasn't being avoided for some reason. If it is a feature that is being >> avoided, can I at least write a small patch to tell the user what's >> the haps? (At the moment, netcfg tries to use the improper passphrase >> by passing a command to iwconfig and then iwconfig throws out a >> cryptic "unknown command" error.) > > Well, technically this has nothing to do with netcfg. If you patch > iwconfig to support it, the patch would go upstream and netcfg would > "just work", it seems. > > That said, isn't WEP all sorts of broken? I was under the impression > WPA was the way to go these days >
