WEP not working on SMC2804WBR router

I've got the following gear.

1. Desktop P4 connected to SMC2804WBR 54g wireless router (connected to
cable modem).

2. Emachines M5310 laptop with internal 54g wireless and SMC 2835W wireless
card. If I configure the router to go WPA (firmware upgrade had to be
applied) and the SMC card as well (software upgrade had to be applied), it
workds as planned. Everything is good to go.

But, if I remove the SMC card and just use the internal wireless, configure
for WEP although it says I am connected, I can't access anything at all. No
web, newsgroups, email. Nothing. This is with using Wireless Zero
Configuration in WinXP Home with the WPA patch applied. However, with no
security configured on the router, other than disabled SSID, changed
passwords and MAC filtering I can connect no problem.




Any ideas?

thanks

Tom


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"Thomas Davie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> I've got the following gear.
>
> 1. Desktop P4 connected to SMC2804WBR 54g wireless router (connected to
> cable modem).
>
> 2. Emachines M5310 laptop with internal 54g wireless and SMC 2835W
wireless
> card. If I configure the router to go WPA (firmware upgrade had to be
> applied) and the SMC card as well (software upgrade had to be applied), it
> workds as planned. Everything is good to go.
>
> But, if I remove the SMC card and just use the internal wireless,
configure
> for WEP although it says I am connected, I can't access anything at all.
No
> web, newsgroups, email. Nothing. This is with using Wireless Zero
> Configuration in WinXP Home with the WPA patch applied. However, with no
> security configured on the router, other than disabled SSID, changed
> passwords and MAC filtering I can connect no problem.
>
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
>
> Tom
>
>
Tom,
I have a SMC2804WBR and a Compaq Prosario 2150 laptop with built-in 802.11g
(Broadcom chipset). I thought it would be easier to start with WEP and move
to WPA. I went around and around many times trying to get the router and
laptop to talk on WEP with security. I upgraded both router and laptop to
the latest firmware. Never got WEP to work with security. I finally tried
WPA Only mode with WPA-PSK and TKIP on the laptop internal wireless port.
Mine works fine that way at 48Mbps. I have yet to find someone on the
newsgroups who got WEP with security to work on the SMC2804WBR.
-Bill
"No one escorted me out, I must still work there."

"William Hicks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>>
> Tom,
> I have a SMC2804WBR and a Compaq Prosario 2150 laptop with built-in
> 802.11g (Broadcom chipset). I thought it would be easier to start with
> WEP and move to WPA. I went around and around many times trying to get
> the router and laptop to talk on WEP with security. I upgraded both
> router and laptop to the latest firmware. Never got WEP to work with
> security. I finally tried WPA Only mode with WPA-PSK and TKIP on the
> laptop internal wireless port. Mine works fine that way at 48Mbps. I
> have yet to find someone on the newsgroups who got WEP with security
> to work on the SMC2804WBR. -Bill
> "No one escorted me out, I must still work there."
>
>

Thanks for the information. I've just got an upgrade for my internal
wireless, but dince I don't have acces to my laptop at the moment am
unaware as to whether or not it will handle WPA. At the moment, I am going
with an unencrypted wireless setup at home, but when I ad another wireless
computer for another family member, it is going to be all WPA (I just like
having the cardbus slot free for other options). So right now exept for
hidden SSID and chnged ntework name/passwords, the only security I've got
is MAC filtering.

I'll see what happens after the driver upgrde.

Tom

"William Hicks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Tom,
> I have a SMC2804WBR and a Compaq Prosario 2150 laptop with built-in
> 802.11g (Broadcom chipset). I thought it would be easier to start with
> WEP and move to WPA. I went around and around many times trying to get
> the router and laptop to talk on WEP with security. I upgraded both
> router and laptop to the latest firmware. Never got WEP to work with
> security. I finally tried WPA Only mode with WPA-PSK and TKIP on the
> laptop internal wireless port. Mine works fine that way at 48Mbps. I
> have yet to find someone on the newsgroups who got WEP with security
> to work on the SMC2804WBR. -Bill
> "No one escorted me out, I must still work there."

This might help. Yesterday I downloaded the most recent Dell Truemobile
1300 WLAN card drivers (August 20th if I remember correctly, but I can
dig up the exact link.....

http://support.dell.com/filelib/form...leaseid=r65194

I had read somewhere that this card is the exact same one that is in my
Emachines laptop, a Boadcom based mini PCI card. So I installed the
drivers, figuring that I could always roll them back if they didn't work.
Well, with the Windows XP wireless zero upgrade allowing for WPA, and the
Dell drivers allowing for WPA....it works. After switching on WPA and
entering a preshared key in the router, setting the cipher suite to TKIP
and setting group re-keying to 100 seconds and entering the same
preshared key in the wireless zero client, my connection automagically
popped up. Further, the WLAN card shows up as a Dell Trumobile 1300 in
the device manager.

But yeah, I'll be damned if I can get WEP to work. Oh one other thing; an
'official' driver upgrade from Emachines from Sept 29th was still unable
to connect using WEP, so I'm more than happy to use the drivers/utility
from Dell.

Tom



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Hallo,

I do have the same problem connecting to a SMC2804WBR with a Samsung Laptop
running XP. The laptop has a 11b WLAN card and if I set up WEB I do not get
any IP address. The connection is ok, but without any IP address this do not
help a lot :-(

Greetings

Oliver

"Thomas Davie" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "William Hicks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:tCjnb.86386$(E-Mail Removed):
>
> > Tom,
> > I have a SMC2804WBR and a Compaq Prosario 2150 laptop with built-in
> > 802.11g (Broadcom chipset). I thought it would be easier to start with
> > WEP and move to WPA. I went around and around many times trying to get
> > the router and laptop to talk on WEP with security. I upgraded both
> > router and laptop to the latest firmware. Never got WEP to work with
> > security. I finally tried WPA Only mode with WPA-PSK and TKIP on the
> > laptop internal wireless port. Mine works fine that way at 48Mbps. I
> > have yet to find someone on the newsgroups who got WEP with security
> > to work on the SMC2804WBR. -Bill
> > "No one escorted me out, I must still work there."
>
> This might help. Yesterday I downloaded the most recent Dell Truemobile
> 1300 WLAN card drivers (August 20th if I remember correctly, but I can
> dig up the exact link.....
>
> http://support.dell.com/filelib/form...leaseid=r65194
>
> I had read somewhere that this card is the exact same one that is in my
> Emachines laptop, a Boadcom based mini PCI card. So I installed the
> drivers, figuring that I could always roll them back if they didn't work.
> Well, with the Windows XP wireless zero upgrade allowing for WPA, and the
> Dell drivers allowing for WPA....it works. After switching on WPA and
> entering a preshared key in the router, setting the cipher suite to TKIP
> and setting group re-keying to 100 seconds and entering the same
> preshared key in the wireless zero client, my connection automagically
> popped up. Further, the WLAN card shows up as a Dell Trumobile 1300 in
> the device manager.
>
> But yeah, I'll be damned if I can get WEP to work. Oh one other thing; an
> 'official' driver upgrade from Emachines from Sept 29th was still unable
> to connect using WEP, so I'm more than happy to use the drivers/utility
> from Dell.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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"Oliver Otto" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Hallo,
>
> I do have the same problem connecting to a SMC2804WBR with a Samsung
> Laptop running XP. The laptop has a 11b WLAN card and if I set up WEB
> I do not get any IP address. The connection is ok, but without any IP
> address this do not help a lot :-(

I gave up trying to get WEP to work. Based on a tip fom someone I
downloaded and installed the latest Dell Truemobile 1300 drivers and was
able to get WPA working (which is what I wanted, and why I had also
purchased an add in wifi card which I don' need now).

Tin