It's subtly different because the key entered is used with the essid to create a hex key and then written to the interfaces file. The WEP key is just written straight to the file.
Why this wasn't fixed when WPA support was added I've no idea.
Marking as a duplicate of bug #50386
It's subtly different because the key entered is used with the essid to create a hex key and then written to the interfaces file. The WEP key is just written straight to the file.
Why this wasn't fixed when WPA support was added I've no idea.
Marking as a duplicate of bug #50386