Comments on: Mac OS X Airport Internet Sharing with Ubuntu with WEP

By: nurul

nurul — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:01:09 +0000

awsome…:D thx so much..:D

By: Gino

Gino — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:21:32 +0000

Awesome i have been trying to find the correct way in fixing this problem. Thanks to you i finally got it. Life saver. whew.

By: Renato

Renato — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:04:01 +0000

you save me

By: mark

mark — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:33:42 +0000

Oh, God! I also suffered from this one. THANKS A LOT

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:27:30 +0000

Sweet, this just worked for me as well, had to do the 5 character key, numbers only, no $ before it would work. Very helpful, Thanks!

By: Francisco

Francisco — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:23:41 +0000

This fixed my problem too!

Thank you!!

By: Mauricio Zepeda

Mauricio Zepeda — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:34:35 +0000

Thanks man! This did the trick. I would have never found that out on my own. Using 128 WEP!

By: vasilii

vasilii — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:12:14 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. I was suffering by the same problem.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:21:00 +0000

Actually, you don’t need to prefix the key on the Mac side with “$” or treat it as a numeric string. The primary issue is that the Mac needs to receive the request as a key, not as a passphrase. As it states clearly on the config screen for the Mac, you can use a 5 character key for 40 bit auth (or 13, but 5 is nominal i guess); you must use 13 characters for 128-bit auth. Other than those restrictions, you can use whatever characters you want. The odd exception to this is if you use all numeric characters, the length can be 10.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:45:08 +0000

Thank you! I’ve been trying to do this forever!