Re: [NTLK] Help with WLAN

Hi Marty
Many thanks for taking the time to give such a detailed response. As you
suggested I turned off WEP from the configuration panel on my windows
desktop. The newt and Lucent Silver connected up just fine using the
basic DHCP setting! I've obviously turned this back off.

The WEP key is 26 characters long and is detailed on the router/modem
itself and appears exactly the same in the configuration panel on the
windows machine. I've checked the Orange Website and it doesn't have
anything about changing this.

When I type this key into the set up screen on the newt is says, 'string
too long', this is true for both 'string' and 'hexadecimal' modes.

Should I attempt to change the WEP key on the configuration panel on the
windows machine to something shorter?

If so how short and what would the conseqences of doing this be?

Many thanks in advance.
Andy

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:49:23 -0700, "Martin Joseph" <NT@stillnewt.org>
said:
>
> On Aug 4, 2007, at 1:54 AM, Andy Hill wrote:
> > <snip>
> > I'm having some difficulty connecting my MP2000 using a Lucent Wavelan
> > Silver Turbo to our wireless router.

> Usually if you have a router on the lan, you want the same subnet
> and a unique address. For example:
>
> If your router is:
> 10.0.1.1
> Then the clients connected to it will have the same three high order
> octets (ie 10.0.1) which will be followed by a unique number between
> 1 and 255. So your client address should be:
>
> 10.0.1.2 or 10.0.1.253 or whatever. If you see that the windows box
> seems to get an address in a particular range, try avoiding that with
> your manually configured clients.
>
> >

> > WEP Key: taken from base of router
> The base? This sounds wrong.

>
> I suggest turning off wep on the router for troubleshooting and then
> when you have that running smoothly, you can try it again.

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