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luvlee_ghg is offline luvlee_ghg
2010-06-23 , 05:54
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Hi Guys,

Now this is annoying. I am trying to connect N900 to my home Wifi network. I enter the 25 characters long ( yes it is too long ) WEP key in my phone for connecting. But it is complaining of the WEP key being too long. I am not sure how to overcome this issue.

I can use the same key in my laptop to connect to the network. Why Nokia has set this limitation on its phone. Sadly my N95-8GB is not accepting the WEP key of this much characters. My roommate's iPhone doesnt complain about anything and works well

Now I dont want to reset the wifi router's WEP key because I dont have the privilege to do it.

Why does Nokia set such unnecessary restrictions and why cant it leave it to the user's choice?

Ok that aside, can someone provide me workaround to get over this issue?

Thanks
 
9000 is offline 9000
2010-06-23 , 06:11
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You may try the following commands (customize bold parts). I don't have a wifi accessing point to test with them atm, but in theory it should work.

Code:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid YOURESSID
sudo iwconfig wlan0 key YOURLONGPASSWORD
sudo udhcpc -f -i wlan0
Please feedback when you've tried them.
 
luvlee_ghg is offline luvlee_ghg
2010-06-23 , 19:29
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Thanks for your help. Before I could try that my friend logged into the router and generated a 10 digit key and asked me to try. As a saviour it worked for me. Again, thanks for taking time to help me out. You rock guys!
 
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2010-06-23 , 21:45
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Thread moved to Maemo 5 / Fremantle and marked Solved.
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