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Time for action – connecting to a WEP network

We can proceed with the following steps:

Use the iwconfig utility to connect to a WEP network, once you have the key. In a past exercise, we broke the WEP key—abcdefabcdefabcdefabcdef12:

What just happened?

We saw how to connect to a WEP network.

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