WiFi and Macs

We've just gotten our first Mac, and I'm rapidly discovering that it's
just as frustrating (though in different ways) as my WinDoze machines.
Discovery of the day: Hex WEP keys must be entered with CAPS LOCK on,
or the key will not be recognized. I kid you not, sigh...

Anyway, every time the machine boots I have to manually reconnect to
my AP, is there an easy way to make one the default that it'll connect
to on boot? iMac, OS-X, FWIW...

Thanks!

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, William P.N.
Smith wrote:

> We've just gotten our first Mac, and I'm rapidly discovering that it's
> just as frustrating (though in different ways) as my WinDoze machines.
> Discovery of the day: Hex WEP keys must be entered with CAPS LOCK on,
> or the key will not be recognized. I kid you not, sigh...

not on my mac they don't. i've never needed to use capslock for wep
keys.

however, you may need to preface it with a $ depending on the
operating system and airport software version.

> Anyway, every time the machine boots I have to manually reconnect to
> my AP, is there an easy way to make one the default that it'll connect
> to on boot? iMac, OS-X, FWIW...

go to system preferences, pick the network panel, click on the airport
tab, and then pick the wireless network name and type in the password.

it will connect on boot, sleep/wake, etc.