[HOWTO] Generate a WPA2 (HEX) passphrase from a wired, Windows connection?

[TBerk]

I am setting up a wireless connection on a newly installed system running 8.10.
It has not had any updates as of yet, hasn't been on any network yet either.

I have been following (successfully so far...) this thread:

Walkthrough - Installing Ralink 2860 Based Wireless Adapters
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=966185

And I get to the point where I am to edit the RT2860STA.dat file to specify my Router's SSID, encryption type, and passphrase.

There are instructions to get the hex version of the passphrase by running a Linux based command but the horse is before the cart on that one; in my case I can't yet log onto the network w/ the system in question, so running a command against the router from there is moot.

What I CAN do is run a command from the Windows based system I am posting from, (but it is wired, not wireless).

My question then becomes; How do I generate the version of my known passphrase that the settings in Ubuntu can understand, from a Windows based PC?


Thx,
TBerk

[flyguy97]

There should be no need to log into the network to run the wpa_passphrase command. When I went through the process of setting up my wireless connection the network was completely down. I guess I am not sure what you want to do here. Can you explain what happends when you issue the wpa_passphrase command?