Re: [NTLK] Help with WLAN

On Aug 6, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Andy Hill wrote:

> 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.
OK, You need to figure out how to access the setup web page on your
wireless router.

Your Newton with the silver card can only access 64bit (or 40 bit)
WEP base stations. The length of your key seems to indicate you have
a 128 bit key?

Figuring out how to check the configuration of your wireless base is
essential and shouldn't be too hard. Usually if you are using DHCP,
the gateway or router address given by the base is the web page of
the router. For example if your gateway address is 192.168.0.1, try
entering that into your browsers top line (the place where you
normally see http://blahblahblah.com
>
> 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.
Yes it's too long.
>
> Should I attempt to change the WEP key on the configuration panel
> on the
> windows machine to something shorter?
Not that has nothing to do with it, unless I am misunderstanding?
You need to set the wireless base to use 40 bit web (or 64 bit) with
an appropriate key.
>
> If so how short and what would the conseqences of doing this be?
No point as that would only break the connection to the windows box.
When you have reconfigured the base station, then you can go back and
change the widows box to the new key.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
> Andy
Hope that helps,
Marty

>
>
> 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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