Wep

13 Feb 2005 11:32 PM

Drew Peacock

Can someone help, done searches but still cannot figure it out.
I.m using a Linksys WRT54gs wireless network, sharing internet,printing and
file sharing between 2 PC's and a Apple iBook with airport card. All are
working fine and can see each other.Router is attached to PC 1.
However, I have protection disabled and I want to have WEP activated on the
router. I've generated a passkey on 64bit , 10 hex digits and ie, as
follows:

Default transmit key : 2

A97349DADC
EBEA1413D3
C604FA3C7B
5EC3997A5D

Now, when I've tried to connect to the network with PC 2 (Belkin wireless
card installed) and the ibook and asked for the password, I've tried all
the numbers (?) and the 10 numbers on line 2. I read somewhere, on the ibook
to put a $ sign first . Still cannot connect.

What am I doing wrong......any idea ?

Want to get this sorted before someone parks outside my house with a laptop
and pillages my PC's :-)

14 Feb 2005 12:06 AM

Neill Massello

Drew Peacock <p*@freeuk.com> wrote:

> What am I doing wrong......any idea ?

Set the Linksys to use only *one* WEP key. Macs can't work with rotating
WEP keys.

14 Feb 2005 5:44 PM

Jeff Liebermann

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:06:49 GMT, neillmasse***@earthlink.net (Neill
Massello) wrote:

>Drew Peacock <p*@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>> What am I doing wrong......any idea ?
>
>Set the Linksys to use only *one* WEP key. Macs can't work with rotating
>WEP keys.

True. However, the Airport client will work with 64bit WEP keys.
Listing four of these 64bit keys in the access point is probably the
only way to configure it. As I vaguely recall, the Airport driver is
currently smart enough to recognize the difference between 128bit keys
in hex or ASCII, but fails to automagically recognize the difference
between 64bit hex and ASCII (this may have been fixed). I use 64bit
keys on my office LAN (because I have a pile of Orinoco Silver cards)
so I run into the problem often. As I recall, I had to prefix the hex
WEP key with either a $ or 0x to have it recognized. I always use
Key #1 and have never bothered trying the others. In any case, a byte
of trial and error (8 tries) with the prefix and hex format on the
Airport should yield something that eventually works.

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14 Feb 2005 12:35 AM

Richard Perkin

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"Drew Peacock" <p*@freeuk.com> wrote in
news:8sRPd.1094$Ru4.180@newsfe2-win.ntli.net:

> Can someone help, done searches but still cannot figure it out.
> I.m using a Linksys WRT54gs wireless network, sharing
> internet,printing and file sharing between 2 PC's and a Apple
> iBook with airport card. All are working fine and can see each
> other.Router is attached to PC 1. However, I have protection
> disabled and I want to have WEP activated on the router. I've
> generated a passkey on 64bit , 10 hex digits and ie, as follows:
>
> Default transmit key : 2
>
> A97349DADC
> EBEA1413D3
> C604FA3C7B
> 5EC3997A5D
>
> Now, when I've tried to connect to the network with PC 2 (Belkin
> wireless card installed) and the ibook and asked for the
> password, I've tried all the numbers (?) and the 10 numbers on
> line 2. I read somewhere, on the ibook to put a $ sign first .
> Still cannot connect.
>
> What am I doing wrong......any idea ?

I also read about the leading $ sign to signify hex characters when
configuring an Airport card. Couldn't get that to work on my iMac,
but using 0x worked fine. So if you're using key 2, specify this as:
0xEBEA1413D3

Hope this helps

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15 Feb 2005 7:50 PM

Drew Peacock

Thanks Jeff & Richard, all sorted and secure.
Just installed extra RAM in the iBook so now well happy,

Cheers !