Wireless Problem

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Martin Racette

Hi,

A friend of mine has bought a notebook with a built-in wireless network card,
but we can't make it connect to the router, the card does see the router, but
when ever we input the WEP password, it does not connect with the router.

I also have a notebook, but mine is with a PCMCIA card, and I'm using the
configuration software that came it and this one work perfectly, but I can
understand what we're doing wrong with the Windows configuration in my friend's
notebook. His is using the Windows own configurations.

Any help would be appreciated


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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
I wonder if you have different manufacturer's devices.

WEP keys may be generated differently.
copy the generated codes not the password.

Channel the same?
Firewall on?

Ping work?

Hemlock
 
Hi,

The router is a D-Link 624, the card I don't know since its built-in into the
notebook, Firewall is off, ping can't work until you establish a connection
between the notebook and the router.

The WEP key in the router is visible but the one in Windows isn't, and the only
thing that I see in the WEP key on the router is the password, so how can I get
the generated key?

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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
"Martin said:
Hi,

A friend of mine has bought a notebook with a built-in wireless network card,
but we can't make it connect to the router, the card does see the router, but
when ever we input the WEP password, it does not connect with the router.

I also have a notebook, but mine is with a PCMCIA card, and I'm using the
configuration software that came it and this one work perfectly, but I can
understand what we're doing wrong with the Windows configuration in my friend's
notebook. His is using the Windows own configurations.

Any help would be appreciated
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Make sure that the WEP settings are exactly right on the notebook: key
length, key, and key index.

Is MAC address filtering enabled on the router? If so, add the MAC
address of the notebook's wireless card to the allowed list.
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Steve Winograd said:
Make sure that the WEP settings are exactly right on the notebook: key
length, key, and key index.

Is MAC address filtering enabled on the router? If so, add the MAC
address of the notebook's wireless card to the allowed list.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
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I had a similar problem with my daughter's laptop and XP Pro. What is the
OS on the friends notebook? If it is XP Home, the WEP keys will be
configured 1, 2, 3, 4. If he's running XP Pro the WEP keys are configured
0, 1, 2, 3. Where as, WEP key 1 (on the router) will correspond to WEP key
0 on the laptop running XP Pro, and so on....2 = 1, 3 = 2, 4 = 3. Drove me
nuts for a hour or so, but everything worked fine as soon as I realized the
difference in the WEP key numbering. Hope this helps.
 
"Steve" said:
I had a similar problem with my daughter's laptop and XP Pro. What is the
OS on the friends notebook? If it is XP Home, the WEP keys will be
configured 1, 2, 3, 4. If he's running XP Pro the WEP keys are configured
0, 1, 2, 3. Where as, WEP key 1 (on the router) will correspond to WEP key
0 on the laptop running XP Pro, and so on....2 = 1, 3 = 2, 4 = 3. Drove me
nuts for a hour or so, but everything worked fine as soon as I realized the
difference in the WEP key numbering. Hope this helps.
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That's a good point about the different values for key index, Steve.
However, I think that it's the network card that determines the
values. I don't think that XP Home vs. XP Pro explains the
difference.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

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