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I have setup a Spark Lan AP with the following:-
SSID - Wireless
Authentication - Shared Key
WEP - Enabled
WEP Encryption - 128Bit
Keys 1 - 4 - have the same 26 Hex key, default key is 1
On the Sony laptop I have a Planet WL-3560 PCMCIA card with the following,
on Windows XP Pro SP1a:-
SSID - Wireless
Wireless Mode -Infrastructure
Encryption - Enabled
Authentication Mode - Auto
Key - is as per the AP, 26 Hex.
The laptop can see the wireless connection sometime but it will not pick up
an ip address nor do I see any signal strength. Using the site survey it
see's the AP and all the info.
If I change the AP Authentication from Shared to Open the laptop immediately
connections and I get signal strength.
Can someone tell me is it OK to leave the authentication mode to Open. What
is the difference between Open and Shared?
TIA
Dave
I have setup a Spark Lan AP with the following:-
SSID - Wireless
Authentication - Shared Key
WEP - Enabled
WEP Encryption - 128Bit
Keys 1 - 4 - have the same 26 Hex key, default key is 1
On the Sony laptop I have a Planet WL-3560 PCMCIA card with the following,
on Windows XP Pro SP1a:-
SSID - Wireless
Wireless Mode -Infrastructure
Encryption - Enabled
Authentication Mode - Auto
Key - is as per the AP, 26 Hex.
The laptop can see the wireless connection sometime but it will not pick up
an ip address nor do I see any signal strength. Using the site survey it
see's the AP and all the info.
If I change the AP Authentication from Shared to Open the laptop immediately
connections and I get signal strength.
Can someone tell me is it OK to leave the authentication mode to Open. What
is the difference between Open and Shared?
TIA
Dave