From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 13:19:03 PST
On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Josef Jahn wrote:
> James Nichols wrote:
>> I think it might have to do with the way the Airport systems treat
>> "passwords" - I never could convince my Wavelan Turbo Silver card
>> running on either my os 9 powerbook or my newton to connect to an
>> Airport Extreme base station using any type of password
>
> That's because Apple uses a different algorithm to convert the ascii
> password into a hex key for WEP. That means you
> have to enter the key as HEX values to get it working across Apple and
> non-Apple equipment - or use WPA ;)
>
True, although it's worth noting that Newton doesn't support WPA... I
use the Open source wireless driver on Sourceforge which has the
algorithm for converting from Apple type keys to Hex. This allows me
to use a string on the Apple supported systems and the hex equivalent
on the Newton.
Marty
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