3/13 I'm trying to get a Mac with an Airport on the net via my lynksys
AP. My W2k laptop works fine but I can't get the Mac to talk to
it. I'm using 128bit WEP but turning it off didn't help. Is the
Mac able to talk to non-apple APs?
\_ Yes
\_ I had this problem but the other way around. It was an issue
with the way SSIDs/keys were entered (I forget the specifics, but
it was a question of leading 0x and hex/non-hex strings.) Try
something along those lines if nothing else works. -John
\_ I had to put a "$" in front of the WEP password when
entering it into the Mac. Didn't have to change anything
on the linksys. Works fine after that.
\_ John and anon person, thank you. I'll give those both a try.
Where did the idea of prefixing a "$" come from? Thanks! --op
\_ I googled it a year ago when I had the same problem as you
did. John's explanation is vaguely familiar; it definitely
had something to do with hex vs. plain text, and the $
makes it a literal WEP key ... or something. |