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Eircom Netopia 2247-02 & grc.com WPA passwords

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  • 16-02-2010 3:36pm
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    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭


    Router: Netopia 2247-02

    Software Version: 7.7.0r6

    ISP: Eircom

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    I'm out at a house helping someone using a Netopia Router with WEP, along with a default eircom SSID (a neighbour locally was piggybacking..), change over to WPA2 PSK.

    Things seem to work fine. I grabbed a key generated from here:

    (Gibson Research Corporation - safe for work)

    https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

    If you scroll down that page, I'm using the password generated as:
    63 printable ASCII characters hashed down to 256 binary bits:

    `NrG84]!\?"<o}EiNHO\ePWq!7S6.k/;dCIv@B"V(E\>g4P[8<9U!Jy_r54{n`Y

    Now, if I paste that into the Router, it takes it and I set up the connection.. and it works, BUT, if I attempt to go back into the advanced menu, say to add a MAC address to the MAC filtering menu, I get the following:
    Pre Shared Key Error: An invalid Pre Shared Key was entered. The Pre Shared Key must be 8 to 63 characters long.

    Yet the connection 'works', both in Linux and XP, along with Windows 7, on a desktop and a laptop.

    Are there any issues with the above router accepting printable ASCII keys, or is the Netopia limited to alpha-numeric keys?

    I pasted the 'test' key into Notepad2 and it is 63 characters long.

    Am I overlooking something simple?
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    douglasman
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭douglasman


    Amalgam wrote: »
    Router: Netopia 2247-02

    Software Version: 7.7.0r6

    ISP: Eircom

    ---

    I'm out at a house helping someone using a Netopia Router with WEP, along with a default eircom SSID (a neighbour locally was piggybacking..), change over to WPA2 PSK.

    Things seem to work fine. I grabbed a key generated from here:

    (Gibson Research Corporation - safe for work)

    https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

    If you scroll down that page, I'm using the password generated as:



    Now, if I paste that into the Router, it takes it and I set up the connection.. and it works, BUT, if I attempt to go back into the advanced menu, say to add a MAC address to the MAC filtering menu, I get the following:



    Yet the connection 'works', both in Linux and XP, along with Windows 7, on a desktop and a laptop.

    Are there any issues with the above router accepting printable ASCII keys, or is the Netopia limited to alpha-numeric keys?

    I pasted the 'test' key into Notepad2 and it is 63 characters long.

    Am I overlooking something simple?

    You are not overlooking anything, it's a known bug in the web interface of the netopia. Every time you need to go into the wireless Advanced Configuration Options, you have to re-copy and paste the WPA key back in again to avoid getting the error. The telnet interface has a lot more options and doesn't have the bugs that the web interface does. The netopia works fine with all ASCII characters, so no problems there.


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