Wireless WEP problem

[Metier9]

Wireless security = a 4 letter word

could put wpa2 on with AES

[Stephen C]

I've just put on a 128bit WEP which I have working and can connect to. Problems occur when I try to get WPA running.. If I set my routers WPA to say "DONTHAXME" and then try to enter it in the laptop when connecting I get ..

The network password needs to be 40bits or 10bits depending on your network coniguration.
This can be entered as 5 or 13 ascii characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters.

[Moby-Dick]

you need to update your latop wifi drivers - its not trying to use WPA.

[dave87]

Ah, thats because the software is still thinking you are trying to enter a WEP key - a restart should cure that

(Damn, Moby beat me to it )

[Stephen C]

I've searched for the latest drivers but had no luck..
the card I bought was oem with no box.. it's an Orinoco gold with PC24E-H-FC on it and I'm running Windows XP.

Tried rebooting also, comes up with the same message.
It's not too much to worry about, atleast I can connect to my secodnary network now and I have some slight proection with 128bit WEP and mac address filtering.

[Metier9]

PCMCIA or USB? Could upgrade the firmware for it Also to do a test try to connect to a friends wireless network to test.

[Stephen C]

PCMIA, not found the firmware either.
I can connect networks fine, it's just when I use WPA it doesn't let me connect.

[Metier9]

Well the WEP on my linksys is busted... for some reason... i did flash the firmware to some opensource project thingy.. ill blame that haha.

[d3fiant]

the sky router is slightly annoying as it is a rebadged netgear with a modified firmware, u have no adsl username/password as such, the router autocreates one although this can be obtained several ways. To be honest fella the issue really sounds like ur card cannot handle WPA at present, I will have a dig around for a driver update. To change any of the wireless settings just use the wizard which is the top left link on the cp. I wouldnt change any of the other settings unless u know what you are doing and really feel the need to change, if u call sky they will simply reset the box to default and all ur config will be lost

[d3fiant]

card is made by Proxim Wireless and to be a pain u have to create an account to get drivers I have created an account and dl the latest drivers v4.1.0.161 WHQL and pdf manual, if u pm me ur email addy I will email them over to u, otherwise create an account urself on the above link. Hope that helps

The card does support WPA and WPA2 but only at a certain driver level, cant find which cos their site suxs big time

[d3fiant]

have sent the emails, the first is nearly 10mb due to the driver file zip, could have stripped it out but didnt have time. If you have any further problems then post here and we will see if we can assist further

[Moby-Dick]

nice one d3fiant



this bud's for you

[d3fiant]

cheers fella, always appreciated people helpin me out when I had problems so it makes sense to return the favour...that and work is so slow at the mo Im finding more time to camp on hexus

[Stephen C]

Aye, very much appreciated dude /bow

[d3fiant]

...but did it work