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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-04-26 02:17:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-04-26 02:17:34 +0000 |
| commit | 6720bf35d596cd6eaaa53e06a245f7409c866a4f (patch) | |
| tree | 126c4832933086fc03618daf4a872950688614df /sbin | |
| parent | 6f95c3ff05069313ccb22b5535bcf401a23b17eb (diff) | |
Mention that just because you can store a 104 bit WEP key on the card
doesn't mean the card can actually do 104 bit WEP.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 b/sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 index fdeeaab33d5..15038984232 100644 --- a/sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 +++ b/sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: wicontrol.8,v 1.34 2002/04/21 15:52:08 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: wicontrol.8,v 1.35 2002/04/26 02:17:33 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 .\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> All rights reserved. @@ -131,6 +131,12 @@ For WaveLAN Gold cards, the key can be up to text string or 26 hexadecimal digits. Either way, the key will be concatenated with a 24-bit IV to generate the seed for RC4. +Note that +.Nm +has no way to determine whether or not a card is capable of using +104 bit WEP. +Some cards accept a 104 bit key even though they only support 40 bit +keys, in which case WEP encryption will simply fail to work. .It Fl T Ar 1|2|3|4 Specify which of the four WEP encryption keys will be used to encrypt transmitted packets. |