(Dapper Flight 3 install CD)
During the installation, if I want to use the wireless network card on a WEP protected WAN, the instructions are very unclear:
Suggested forms are either numbers in the form of 'nnnn-nnnn-nn', or 'nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn' or 'nnnnnnn' or as a passphrase, prepended with 's:'. None of these seemed to fit the bill, as my WEP key looks something like this: "d75ad0d1cd83b92fbabcae7acf", a 26 characters long hex string. And sure enough, no rewriting in any form made it work.
Until I finally tried it - as it stood - but in uppercase. This is very unintiutive, because:
* It doesn't need to be uppercase when configuring router, or in a finished installation of either Ubuntu or Windows
* There is no instruction about this, in fact, the example form is lower case 'n'.
Suggestions:
1. If the network needs an uppercase key to work, silently uppercase it before sending it.
2. Alternatively, update instructions to explain this, and preferably provide better examples.
Alternative #1 is much preferable, although the examples could be a bit better also.
Another thing: would it be possible to remember this entered string and setup the network accordingly after the install? Or should that be a separate bug?