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What about the WEP key option?
I'm sorry, maybe I'm not understanding the question... but when you select the WiFi network from the Airport menu, can't you just select one of the WEP key options from the drop-down menu and punch in the key? That's what I've been doing for years, and it's worked fine for me so far...
What about the WEP key option?
The network connection point at the other end of the WiFi connection is not an Airport pod. Even though the user is using A mac, the router he is connecting to comes from someone other than Apple.
What about the WEP key option?
Right.
What about the WEP key option?
Nope I don't get it either. When I connect to my PC's wireless card (my Linux desktop acts as my base station) I enter my hex key by selecting 128bit hex from the drop down menu like the original post describes and put it in there. No need to use a 0x or $.
What about the WEP key option?
I did not have to enter the $ or 0x either, however I did notice that it had been added by the software. If I look at the key as it appears in my keychain there is a 0x in front of what I entered. I'm using a D-Link DI-614+ Wireless Router. Works great! :-)
What about the WEP key option?
For much of the rest of the universe, folks are not able to use simple passwords to connect to wireless routers. Rather they have to use cryptic strings of many Hexidecimal digits.
Don't even try and sound informed, just keep spreading anti-PC FUD... I am a Mac user and proud of it, but this is simply not true. I have used SEVERAL WAPs with PCs running Windows and Linux. Most allow the use of a normal password or passphrase. The issue is usually the extremely cheap ones will have poor software interfaces. But even that is changing with the popularity of wireless connectivity. The Mac is *not* perfect, and in fact I would say that Apple sort of "broke" things by chosing an odd way to encode their passwords for 802.11x purposes. All mac vs. PC stuff aside, another very helpful utility for some network configurations involving Macs and PCs and WAPs designed for PC networks is WEP Key Maker.
Yes, but...
You can. BUT...if you use different network locations and want to store the password of the appropriate network in the Airport tab of Network preferences, then there is no selection box; just a password field. This hint (which I discovered elsewhere last week) solves that problem.
Yes, but...
So there is! I never bothered looking at the Airport tab since everything worked just fine for me... |
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