Netgear wizard or utility

I've got a Netgear WG121 adapter and it can't connect to my WAP. I see
my WAP at almost 100% signal strength but when I click "connect"
everything stays red, the utility takes me back to the screen to enter
my WEP pass phrase and clears the one that was there. I tried the Win
XP configuration and get the pretty much the same result (using the
actual key). I called Netgear tech support and they are the singuraly
most worthless idiots on the planet. Anybody have any ideas?

On 12 Apr 2005 21:04:32 -0700, "Ed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote :

>I've got a Netgear WG121 adapter and it can't connect to my WAP. I see
>my WAP at almost 100% signal strength but when I click "connect"
>everything stays red, the utility takes me back to the screen to enter
>my WEP pass phrase and clears the one that was there. I tried the Win
>XP configuration and get the pretty much the same result (using the
>actual key). I called Netgear tech support and they are the singuraly
>most worthless idiots on the planet. Anybody have any ideas?

Can't guarantee the accuracy of this, but I've been told in some cases
entering the key in decimal fails but entering it in hex works.
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Peter Wilkins

"Ed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've got a Netgear WG121 adapter and it can't connect to my WAP. I see
> my WAP at almost 100% signal strength but when I click "connect"
> everything stays red, the utility takes me back to the screen to enter
> my WEP pass phrase and clears the one that was there. I tried the Win
> XP configuration and get the pretty much the same result (using the
> actual key). I called Netgear tech support and they are the singuraly
> most worthless idiots on the planet. Anybody have any ideas?
>

You may be running into a conflict between the XP auto-config and the
Netgear utility. Turn off the Netgear utility and use XP's built in network
setting mechanism. It should come up with a "new network found" balloon and
give you the opportunity to enter your passphrase. While in there, you
probably should change the configuration to only connect to "preferred"
networks, as the default is to try to connect to ANY wireless network it
finds.

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:54:57 +1000, Peter Wilkins
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On 12 Apr 2005 21:04:32 -0700, "Ed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote :
>
>>I've got a Netgear WG121 adapter and it can't connect to my WAP. I see
>>my WAP at almost 100% signal strength but when I click "connect"
>>everything stays red, the utility takes me back to the screen to enter
>>my WEP pass phrase and clears the one that was there. I tried the Win
>>XP configuration and get the pretty much the same result (using the
>>actual key). I called Netgear tech support and they are the singuraly
>>most worthless idiots on the planet. Anybody have any ideas?

>Can't guarantee the accuracy of this, but I've been told in some cases
>entering the key in decimal fails but entering it in hex works.

That's an all too common problem with different hardware vendors. The
conversion between ASCII and Hex should be a simple, no brainer,
easily duplicated, standard. Yet, vendors have often invented
different algorithms for doing such a simple thing. The result is
incompatibility when using ASCII WEP keys. I run into this so often
on mixed systems, that I've gone to using Hex keys exclusively.

Note that you should use a Hex key on both sides of the puzzle (access
point and client radios). I had the clever idea of using an ASCII
key, and manually converting it to the equivalent Hex key with two of
the known algorithms employed by various vendors. Some will even show
you the conversion as it generates the keys. Well, it didn't work.
For some unknown reason, it failed. So, I'm back to using Hex
everywhere and have lived happily ever after.


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