HELP! Cannot configure network to use WEP.

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I have two XP machines, one of which (A) is connected directly to a
DSL line and the other (B) which has a wireless NIC. I have a USB
wireless NIC that is plugged into A, and I am able to set up an ad-hoc
network between A and B that allows me the share the DSL connection
with B. HOWEVER, if I try to enable WEP on the ad-hoc network (i.e.,
following exactly the same set-up steps), the internet is inaccessible
from B. I've tried fiddling with just about everything and still
can't establish a secure wireless network for connecting B to the
internet. Any thoughts/ideas?

Both machines are XP-HE boxes. Box A (Dell Dimension 8200, P4) has a
(ZD1201) IEEE 802.11b USB Wireless LAN Adapter. Box B (a Dell
Inspiron 5150, P4) has a Dell TrueMobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI
Card.

An experiment with pinging: I set the network to WEP on both ends, and
got the IP's: A had 192.168.0.1, B had 169.254.86.100. A ping in both
directions failed. Then I disabled WEP just to see what happens: A
got 192.168.0.1 again, now B got 192.168.0.208. Same situation when I
pinged from A, but B got 4 responses this time. Again, the former
situation made the internet inaccessible from B, the latter made it
accessible from B (despite the unpingable 192.168.0.208.)

Please help -- it's driving me crazy to have an insecure network!

Thanks,
Burp
 
Burp said:
I have two XP machines, one of which (A) is connected directly to a
DSL line and the other (B) which has a wireless NIC. I have a USB
wireless NIC that is plugged into A, and I am able to set up an ad-hoc
network between A and B that allows me the share the DSL connection
with B. HOWEVER, if I try to enable WEP on the ad-hoc network (i.e.,
following exactly the same set-up steps), the internet is inaccessible
from B. I've tried fiddling with just about everything and still
can't establish a secure wireless network for connecting B to the
internet. Any thoughts/ideas?

Both machines are XP-HE boxes. Box A (Dell Dimension 8200, P4) has a
(ZD1201) IEEE 802.11b USB Wireless LAN Adapter. Box B (a Dell
Inspiron 5150, P4) has a Dell TrueMobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI
Card.

An experiment with pinging: I set the network to WEP on both ends, and
got the IP's: A had 192.168.0.1, B had 169.254.86.100. A ping in both
directions failed. Then I disabled WEP just to see what happens: A
got 192.168.0.1 again, now B got 192.168.0.208. Same situation when I
pinged from A, but B got 4 responses this time. Again, the former
situation made the internet inaccessible from B, the latter made it
accessible from B (despite the unpingable 192.168.0.208.)

Please help -- it's driving me crazy to have an insecure network!

Thanks,
Burp
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One thing to make sure is to put the WEP key in using Hex. I had a
USRobotics hub and card, and using ASCII worked great between them.
But when I added a linksys card to another machine their "keyphrase"
was not the ASCII equivilant of the Hex (they must use another
algorithm) but when I used the hex, everyone worked fine.
-Jim
 
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