Semicolon in WEP network password

[Drew]

I installed Ubuntu 7.10 and ran update manager to get all the latest updates.

I went to System->Administration->Network Tools->Wireless Interface (wlan0) ->Configure

to type in my Network Password which is type WEP key (ascii)

I also set "Configuration" to "Automatic configuration (DHCP)"

I could not get DHCP to work at all with my wireless access point until I ran the command:

sudo invoke-rc.d networking restart

and noticed a curious warning in the resulting text. For example, if I set the key to "aaa;bbb" I get the following:

eval: 1: bbb: not found

among all the other status messages.

I've tried other strings as well and the text after the semicolon always appears there. When I use a WEP key without a semicolon DHCP and my wireless connection work just fine.

I've used a WEP key with a semicolon on several MS Windows machines and none of them had a problem with it. I would expect Ubuntu to handle it as well or at least warn me that they are not allowed.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Use the hex representation.