WEP Keys in Mac OS X?

antmo asks: "Mac OS X doesn't allow you to specify which WEP key index (1-4) one wishes to use, via the Network preferences. This causes me much pain, since my employer's wireless network uses a key index other than 1. I know the AirPort card allows for this, as I am able to set all four keys in Open BSD and Debian Linux. I don't know whether this is a limitation of Mac OS X's AirPort driver or simply the preferences. I've looked all over the net, posted to many discussion forums (since March of this year), done quite a bit of tinkering with the config files and still don't have a clue how to, if possible, set which key index to send. I have not heard a thing from Apple about this, which leads me to believe they're not going to add this ability. Does anyone know whether a fix from Apple is forthcoming? Anyone know a hack to get this working?"

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this is not off topic.

[seann]

by linuxpng on 16:12 Sunday 06 October 2002 (#4398291)
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I've set which WEP key to use in my linksys WAP. I forced it on key 1. I then took the hex key it gave me and put that in for the password in the wireless network. For some reason I can't use the passphrase and let it adjust. Hope this helps, it works for me at least.