Trouble getting my Macintosh to link up...

I have an Apple I-book G4 with the Airport Extreme card.
My family recently got a MN-820 wireless base station
that is hooked to the main desktop computer which runs
windows XP. When I go onto my computer and select the
Airport option from the Internet connect screen, it
recognizes our basestation but won't let me connect
because it says I am entering an invalid WEP password, I
know that the password is right because I came up with
it. Can anyone tell me why this is, and how to I correct
it, I'm trying to get back on the internet.

I believe you need to enter a $ sign before the key to
tell the Mac that the key is in hexadecimal (the Mac
allows alphabetiocal keys)

>-----Original Message-----
>I have an Apple I-book G4 with the Airport Extreme
card.
>My family recently got a MN-820 wireless base station
>that is hooked to the main desktop computer which runs
>windows XP. When I go onto my computer and select the
>Airport option from the Internet connect screen, it
>recognizes our basestation but won't let me connect
>because it says I am entering an invalid WEP password, I
>know that the password is right because I came up with
>it. Can anyone tell me why this is, and how to I
correct
>it, I'm trying to get back on the internet.
>.
>

Are you using WEP or WPA (you say password, and the MN-800 uses a
WPA-PSK passphrase). WEP uses a HEX key. For WPA, see the piece in one
of my blogs http://www.msmvps.com/wifizone/ on Macs and WPA

On Tue, 18 May 2004 13:28:08 -0700, "Jared"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have an Apple I-book G4 with the Airport Extreme card.
>My family recently got a MN-820 wireless base station
>that is hooked to the main desktop computer which runs
>windows XP. When I go onto my computer and select the
>Airport option from the Internet connect screen, it
>recognizes our basestation but won't let me connect
>because it says I am entering an invalid WEP password, I
>know that the password is right because I came up with
>it. Can anyone tell me why this is, and how to I correct
>it, I'm trying to get back on the internet.

--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)

No, the screen definitely tells me that I need to enter
a "WEP Password". I have typed the password that I
specified for the network when I set up the base station,
but still have no luck.
>-----Original Message-----
>Are you using WEP or WPA (you say password, and the MN-
800 uses a
>WPA-PSK passphrase). WEP uses a HEX key. For WPA, see
the piece in one
>of my blogs http://www.msmvps.com/wifizone/ on Macs and
WPA
>
>On Tue, 18 May 2004 13:28:08 -0700, "Jared"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I have an Apple I-book G4 with the Airport Extreme
card.
>>My family recently got a MN-820 wireless base station
>>that is hooked to the main desktop computer which runs
>>windows XP. When I go onto my computer and select the
>>Airport option from the Internet connect screen, it
>>recognizes our basestation but won't let me connect
>>because it says I am entering an invalid WEP password,
I
>>know that the password is right because I came up with
>>it. Can anyone tell me why this is, and how to I
correct
>>it, I'm trying to get back on the internet.
>
>--
>Barb Bowman
>Expert Zone Columnist
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>MS-MVP (Windows)
>.
>

WEP does not use a password in the MS base stations. Do you mean a HEX
key? If you are talking about the password prompt on the Mac which
appears, that is not the same. My iBook works fine with either a 128
bit HEX key or WPA Personal with my MN-700. I'd recommend going into
the base station itself from a web browser and entering a new 128 bit
HEX key (go to 192.168.2.1 with a browser) and use that on all
machines. On the Mac, there should be a drop down in the airport
software to enter that HEX key.

On Tue, 18 May 2004 22:14:38 -0700,
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>No, the screen definitely tells me that I need to enter
>a "WEP Password". I have typed the password that I
>specified for the network when I set up the base station,
>but still have no luck.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Are you using WEP or WPA (you say password, and the MN-
>800 uses a
>>WPA-PSK passphrase). WEP uses a HEX key. For WPA, see
>the piece in one
>>of my blogs http://www.msmvps.com/wifizone/ on Macs and
>WPA
>>
>>On Tue, 18 May 2004 13:28:08 -0700, "Jared"
>><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>I have an Apple I-book G4 with the Airport Extreme
>card.
>>>My family recently got a MN-820 wireless base station
>>>that is hooked to the main desktop computer which runs
>>>windows XP. When I go onto my computer and select the
>>>Airport option from the Internet connect screen, it
>>>recognizes our basestation but won't let me connect
>>>because it says I am entering an invalid WEP password,
>I
>>>know that the password is right because I came up with
>>>it. Can anyone tell me why this is, and how to I
>correct
>>>it, I'm trying to get back on the internet.
>>
>>--
>>Barb Bowman
>>Expert Zone Columnist
>>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>MS-MVP (Windows)
>>.
>>

--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)