Re: How to connect to a WPA network that uses 10 hexadecimal digits as password

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

>>
>> Instructions of the hotel are the following
>>
>> SSID: STI WiFi
>> key: a531bc531d
>> PC: Network Key
>> MAC: WPA 10 digits
>
> Could you try turning off NM, killing wpa_supplicant, and using
> 'iwconfig' to association with WEP instead?
>
> killall -TERM NetworkManager
> killall -TERM wpa_supplicant
> iwconfig wlan0 key a531bc531d essid "STI WiFi"
>
> you  might need to try the iwconfig a few times; then if you do an
> 'iwconfig' on its own, look for the "AP:" address to be valid, and if it
> does, try dhclient.
>
> If that doesn't work, there are a few things with wpa_supplicant we can
> try.
>
> Dan
>

I tried this but iwconfig says it is not associated with the accesspoint.

Jaap