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    Help Needed!

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by fishfood, Mar 2, 2006.

  1. fishfood

    fishfood Notebook Evangelist

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    Here is the scenario. Just got my girlfriend a Belkin Wireless card (model F5D7010) for her old dell notebook. The card is installed and working fine when connected to non WEP protected networks. When I try to connect to my WEP protected connection, it asks for the Hex key OR passphrase. This is my problem. When I connect to this network from laptop it asks for the key AND passphrase. On her laptop I put in the key and it says limited or no connectivity.

    It seems to me that I need to put in both the key and passphrase, but there is no option to do this on the Belkin utility.

    By the way, my router is a Netgear WRG614 v6.

    Please help, ASAP
     
    fishfood, Mar 2, 2006
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    fishfood Notebook Evangelist

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    need help please
     
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    fishfood Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks. That did help actually. All I needed to do was reset the Encryption key. I kind of figured that out right as I was reading it.
     
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    nickspohn Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Is everything working out?
     
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    fishfood Notebook Evangelist

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    Now that i;ve changed the WEP key, it does not work on my laptop. I have typed in the new key, but it doesn't work - i get limited or no connectivity
     
    fishfood, Mar 5, 2006
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    Try typing it on again. There is a chance you entered the key incorrectly
     
    nickspohn, Mar 5, 2006
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