Compaq Presario 2100 to Linksys Router

The Compaq laptop comes with a WLAN 54g W450 wireless card. This card
accepts either 10 or 26 hex characters (40 or 104 bits). My Linksys
(BEFW11S4 V.2) 4 port wireless router accepts a passphase which then
displays 39 hex characters (64bit).

How do I mix these apples and oranges???? Or do I have to buy a Linksys
card for the laptop???

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Tom - fun and games - Weyand

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:09:47 GMT, in alt.internet.wireless , "Tom
Weyand" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>The Compaq laptop comes with a WLAN 54g W450 wireless card. This card
>accepts either 10 or 26 hex characters (40 or 104 bits).

These are actually 64 bit and 128 bit.
http://www.proxim.com/support/all/sk...001-08-03.html


>My Linksys
>(BEFW11S4 V.2) 4 port wireless router accepts a passphase which then
>displays 39 hex characters (64bit).

The passphrase is hashed into a 40 bit key. Hopefully you have a way
to give the linksys a 5-byte value instead, otherwise you'll have to
get the spec for the hash. Linksys will be able to provide this.

>How do I mix these apples and oranges????

The "missing" bits are the 802.11 header. Do a websearch for 40 bit
wep, and it will become clearer.



Mark McIntyre

Actually, it's the other way around. I have to leave the Linksys router as
is since the rest of the network is Linksys. Just the Compaq is the
oddball. BTW, I will look at your links.

Tom - ain't this fun - Weyand
"Mark McIntyre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:09:47 GMT, in alt.internet.wireless , "Tom
> Weyand" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >The Compaq laptop comes with a WLAN 54g W450 wireless card. This card
> >accepts either 10 or 26 hex characters (40 or 104 bits).
>
> These are actually 64 bit and 128 bit.
> http://www.proxim.com/support/all/sk...001-08-03.html
>
>
> >My Linksys
> >(BEFW11S4 V.2) 4 port wireless router accepts a passphase which then
> >displays 39 hex characters (64bit).
>
> The passphrase is hashed into a 40 bit key. Hopefully you have a way
> to give the linksys a 5-byte value instead, otherwise you'll have to
> get the spec for the hash. Linksys will be able to provide this.
>
> >How do I mix these apples and oranges????
>
> The "missing" bits are the 802.11 header. Do a websearch for 40 bit
> wep, and it will become clearer.
>
>
>
> Mark McIntyre

Hah hah..., After e-mails from Linksys, the first key in the router (which
is 10 hex chars long) is the correct key to use with the XP OS.

"Tom Weyand" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Actually, it's the other way around. I have to leave the Linksys router
as
> is since the rest of the network is Linksys. Just the Compaq is the
> oddball. BTW, I will look at your links.
>
> Tom - ain't this fun - Weyand
> "Mark McIntyre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:09:47 GMT, in alt.internet.wireless , "Tom
> > Weyand" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> > >The Compaq laptop comes with a WLAN 54g W450 wireless card. This card
> > >accepts either 10 or 26 hex characters (40 or 104 bits).
> >
> > These are actually 64 bit and 128 bit.
> > http://www.proxim.com/support/all/sk...001-08-03.html
> >
> >
> > >My Linksys
> > >(BEFW11S4 V.2) 4 port wireless router accepts a passphase which then
> > >displays 39 hex characters (64bit).
> >
> > The passphrase is hashed into a 40 bit key. Hopefully you have a way
> > to give the linksys a 5-byte value instead, otherwise you'll have to
> > get the spec for the hash. Linksys will be able to provide this.
> >
> > >How do I mix these apples and oranges????
> >
> > The "missing" bits are the 802.11 header. Do a websearch for 40 bit
> > wep, and it will become clearer.
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark McIntyre
>
>