OpenWrt WEP client

Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:48:04 +0000

Like every year, my trusty Fonera 1 running OpenWrt Kamizake repeats the nearest signal to my Hotel room. Until now, my lovely Sol Bahia had an open WiFi access, which was trivially configured in OpenWrt, but this year, they changed their access point to a Zyxel Prestige 650HW-33 (don’t ask) which is “secured” (yeah, right) with WEP. Why am I writing an article about this? because I tend to never use WEP and forget how to configure it on my router everytime. Also, that protocol is so widely not recommended, that there’s almost no documentations on how to set it up properly, but as a matter of fact there are so many hotels and people still using that unsecure protocol that it’s worth writing a reminder.

WEP on iMil.net

OpenWrt WEP client