Re:Clearly a disconnect, let me rephrase...
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Wow, settle down there Coward.
It wasn't my intention to make slashdot my "private help-line". If you read the original story, you may have remembered that I have been looking for "conventional" avenues of help on this. My intention this time, was to open the issue up to a wider audience, under the assumtion that others are having the same problem.
Boy, that's 2 minutes I'll never get back...what a waste.
Clearly a disconnect, let me rephrase...
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An 802.11b network, using WEP, allows for 4 separate WEP keys to be defined. You can then choose, within the WAP, which one you want your network clients to use/send. Think of it as part if the key. MacOSX's network configuration for the airport card, will only allow you send whatever WEP key you entered, as key index 1. If your WAP is setup to expect key index 2, 3 or 4, regardless of what the password is (could be the same for all 4 keys), it will not accept your WEP key. You must send the index which the WAP is configured to expect, along with the key.
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It wasn't my intention to make slashdot my "private help-line". If you read the original story, you may have remembered that I have been looking for "conventional" avenues of help on this. My intention this time, was to open the issue up to a wider audience, under the assumtion that others are having the same problem.
Boy, that's 2 minutes I'll never get back...what a waste.
An 802.11b network, using WEP, allows for 4 separate WEP keys to be defined. You can then choose, within the WAP, which one you want your network clients to use/send. Think of it as part if the key. MacOSX's network configuration for the airport card, will only allow you send whatever WEP key you entered, as key index 1. If your WAP is setup to expect key index 2, 3 or 4, regardless of what the password is (could be the same for all 4 keys), it will not accept your WEP key. You must send the index which the WAP is configured to expect, along with the key.
For those of you who do not understand my question, please don't bother commenting.
No, not the WEP key. The WEP key index.
That is the WEP key, not the index.