So, uh, I feel smart today. I went out and got a wireless router a few months ago, because I was sick of stealing my neighbor's connection (he has pretty unreliable service ) Anyway, so when I set it up, I wanted to make sure people couldn't crack into it. Obviously, WEP was out, so I instead used WPA2 with AES. And, you guessed it, forgot the password. I can still use the connection on my Vista install, but I just reinstalled Ubuntu, and I need the key to get online in Linux. I know I can't brute force it, I made the password way too long, and with too many special characters. That would be a waste of time anyway--I know the key's still on the Vista install, I just can't access it. Anyway, does anybody know of a method to recover the key from the windows install? Is there a registry key somewhere or anything? Or am I just going to have to reset the router and redo all the settings? EDIT: Nevermind, found a tool here that worked fine.
surely you could just hook up a laptop to the router directly with an ethrnet cable and edit the WPA key... or am i being dumb as well?
Just log into the router and look for the key? I doubt it's hashed... But I have a feeling you switched some facts, and you can't access your neighbours router.
Can't, I didn't know what I set the username as. As it turns out, the router defaulted and reset the username/pw to default, and I'm trying to figure out why. WRT54G, for the record--anybody else had that problem before? (The key is still the same, only the username and password for directly accessing it were back to default) And yes, I do own the router. See:
Okay, first off, the problem's already solved. Second, I couldn't hack in, because it's WPA2. I don't know if it's even possible to hack WPA2 (I know WPA can, but I know it's complicated and I never bothered to learn how). WEP, sure, but I'm not stupid enough to use WEP on my wireless network. And I didn't want to reset the router, because I'd lose all my settings for port forwarding and performance tweaks.
