Bug 40872

Summary: [PATCH] document potential WEP text key incompatabilities
Product: Documentation Reporter: Gregory Bond <gnb>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Warner Losh <imp>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Gregory Bond 2002-07-22 06:30:01 UTC 
The setting of WEP keys from text passphrases is driver specific
and is unlikely to interoperate with other drivers.  Setting WEP keys from
a hex string is guaranteed to interoperate with all drivers.

This should be noted in wicontrol(8) and ifconfig(8).

How-To-Repeat: 
wicontrol -k 'hello'
Set the passphrase on a Windows driver to the same thing.
Note the failure to communicate.

Read ifconfig(8) and wicontrol(8) and notice the lack of warning!
Comment 1 dd freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-10-02 01:12:54 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

imp committed this on 2002/08/12, but he apparently forgot to close 
the PR.
Comment 2 dd freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-10-02 01:12:54 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->imp

JFYI