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wiak · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 2075 Location: not Bulgaria

I'm short of time and don't know if there are instructions for using WEP in this long thread. My partner is currently on international business trip and can't get PeasyWIFI to connect - works fine using WPA2 at home so I'm thinking maybe the hotel in Thailand she is at is using WEP. Trouble is neither she nor I know how to connect via WEP using PeasyWIFI.

I read that OTC doesn't work. She knows the wifi SSID and also the passphrase (alphanumeric). Does she need to build a new Profile. I guess so. This is going to be very hard to explain to her how...

Also does WEP passphrase have to be changed to hexadecimal or is the alphanumeric passphrase the hotel gives out the one to use without needing any conversion?

Any help much appreciated. We have been trying but getting No Connection all the time (her Android phone connects fine, just not the BionicDog laptop she needs to use).

wiak

EDIT: I don't have WEP configured router but in experiments I've deduced that with WEP I should put double-quotes round the entered Passphrase under Profiles tab (or convert to hex?). Fact is though, the hotel she is in may not actually be using WEP on its router (I don't know) - perhaps something to do with access needing to go through hotels servers in some way I know nothing about (i.e. not a direct connection to router?).

greengeek · Posted: Thu 30 Jan 2020, 04:17 Post subject:

Any chance of a pic of the login data given to her by the hotel? Was it on a slip of paper given to her on the day she checked in or is it shown on a website or other possibly outdated media?

Also - often hotels use open networks and the login data given to the traveller is a username and passphrase intended to be input through browser - not actually a wifi password.

wiak · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 2075 Location: not Bulgaria

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 30 Jan 2020, 06:36 Post subject:

I can't imagine that any hotel would still be using WEP. But if they were, it would require building a WEP profile. You wouldn't need to include quotes - PWF puts all passphrases in quotes so you can include spaces.

If a hotel gives you a username and password, they might be using PEAP. You would need to build that type of profile.

Although, greengeek has the more likely explanation.

wiak · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 2075 Location: not Bulgaria

wiak · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 2075 Location: not Bulgaria

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 31 Jan 2020, 09:10 Post subject:

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8427 Location: World_Hub

Say Bill, if I wanted to use a custom MTU value (Bionic64), in which script would it go?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 13 Jun 2020, 16:46 Post subject:

Probably in /etc/pwf/rc.network, around line 20.

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8427 Location: World_Hub

Thanks.

Getting to your suggestion, yes, it would appear to be the correct location.

These are lines 17 thru 33, line 20 the fourth down:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 14 Jun 2020, 06:34 Post subject:

For WiFi connections, look in the PeasyWiFi script around line 14.

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8427 Location: World_Hub

Thank you, Bill. Exactly where you said it was and works as I expected it should. But then, all your stuff is TITS!