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Trying to connect my XP laptop to an Airport base station at work. I
can see the SSID and that WEP is enabled. The girl who runs the
department where the Airport has been installed has provided me a
seven-character ASCII phrase as the "network password" as she calls
it. When I enter this phrase as the WEP key I get an error stating
that it has to be eight, 12 or 15 characters. She and the Mac repair
tech at work swear that the password she gave me is correct--they are
using it on the Macs that connect to that Airport. Can anyone help me
with this discrepancy? Could the Airport be running in "Macs only"
mode? The router does give me an IP, and I've also configured the
subnet mask and gateway address and still no dice. Thanks in advance.
Jerome
Trying to connect my XP laptop to an Airport base station at work. I
can see the SSID and that WEP is enabled. The girl who runs the
department where the Airport has been installed has provided me a
seven-character ASCII phrase as the "network password" as she calls
it. When I enter this phrase as the WEP key I get an error stating
that it has to be eight, 12 or 15 characters. She and the Mac repair
tech at work swear that the password she gave me is correct--they are
using it on the Macs that connect to that Airport. Can anyone help me
with this discrepancy? Could the Airport be running in "Macs only"
mode? The router does give me an IP, and I've also configured the
subnet mask and gateway address and still no dice. Thanks in advance.
Jerome