Cunting Wi-Fi

[Samdy Gray]

Sounds a bit of a long winded way to get around it Batch. I take it you're entering it as ASCII but it's having trouble converting it to Hex and then authenticating?

To save you trouble working out the Hex manually, there's a generator here: http://www.powerdog.com/wepkey.cgi

[Batch]

Sounds a bit of a long winded way to get around it Batch. I take it you're entering it as ASCII but it's having trouble converting it to Hex and then authenticating?

To save you trouble working out the Hex manually, there's a generator here: http://www.powerdog.com/wepkey.cgi

That tool is useful thanks.

You are correct, typed the key in as a string "password..." but it won't authenticate at all. I'm guessing the config tool does not work properly for some reason.  There is a reason it was £7!

I think I recall that I if I convert the string "password..." to ascii hex (70617373776f7274...) and use that it works from there on in.

Wish I'd have remembered that this morning, then I wouldn't have snapped at the misses, and consequently wouldn't be in the shit house.

[Samdy Gray]

Must be some proper old router you have. On mine I simply go into the router UI, choose WEP and enter a key, connect from my PC where it prompts for the WEP key, enter it and away you go.

[Batch]

It's the desktop PC card driver,  the routers fine.   The router and laptop are as you describe

[Batch]

It's alllliiiiive.

Worked fine in the end despite doing nothing different to this morning. Oh well.

[redbullzeye]

It's alllliiiiive.

Worked fine in the end despite doing nothing different to this morning. Oh well.

SNAP! just got back and switched on and the problem has gone away.  I did Sam's bit about switching off dialling though