diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | mdk-stage1/NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mdk-stage1/wireless.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mdk-stage1/NEWS b/mdk-stage1/NEWS index ec0e0065b..c2d2c7964 100644 --- a/mdk-stage1/NEWS +++ b/mdk-stage1/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +- improve help for entering wireless keys/passphrases + o note that ASCII strings can now be used for WEP keys (mga#21042) + 2.50 - add support for WPA/WPA2 (mga#9541) diff --git a/mdk-stage1/wireless.c b/mdk-stage1/wireless.c index 42039ef7a..3d948c7e5 100644 --- a/mdk-stage1/wireless.c +++ b/mdk-stage1/wireless.c @@ -92,14 +92,15 @@ enum return_type configure_wireless(const char *ifname) if (streq(choice, security[2])) { message = "Please enter your wireless settings. " "The ESSID is your wireless network identifier. " - "The passphrase must be a string of 8 to 63 ASCII characters."; + "The passphrase must be a string of between 8 and 63 ASCII characters."; questions[1] = "passphrase"; questions_auto[1] = "wpa_psk"; key_mgmt = "WPA-PSK"; } else if (streq(choice, security[1])) { message = "Please enter your wireless settings. " "The ESSID is your wireless network identifier. " - "The WEP key must be a string of 10 or 26 hexadecimal digits, without any separators."; + "The WEP key must be either a string of 10 or 26 hexadecimal digits, without any separators, " + "or a string of 5 or 13 ASCII characters enclosed in double quote marks (e.g. \"12345\")."; questions[1] = "WEP key"; questions_auto[1] = "wep_key"; key_mgmt = "NONE"; |