Power Mac Wireless
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Mon Oct 13 15:43:21 CDT 2003
On Monday 13 October 2003 3:14 pm, Seth Dimbert wrote:
> If you're talking about an AirPort network, things are a little
> complicated: Apple makes non-Apple machines enter a longer password than
> Apple machines to connect... You need the Airport Admin Utility (on a mac)
> to get this information.
In this case we're trying to connect an Apple to a mixed TCP/IP network, but
that still may be what I need.
> The Network Admin can give it to you.
NO HE BLOODY WELL CAN'T - I *)AM(* the frigging "Network Admin".
I promised myself I'd hunt down the next HOWTO writer who said something like
that. Good thing this is only a mailing list, huh?
Seriously, where is the "Network Admin" supposed to get it from? How is he
supposed to find out?
> If you're trying to connect an airport-enabled Mac to a plain-jane 802.11
> network, things are much easier... You just enter the information right
> where you would expect to: System Preferences | Network Pane |
> Airport Prefs. You shouldn't need to tell the client how long the key
> is... You just enter it.
Ok, on my Wireless Hub, I have settings for:
SSID,
WEP (on/off),
Key Length,
Ascii or HEX key
Key,
Open Accss/Shared Encryption,
Speed.
You're saying all the Mac will let you set is SSID ("Network Name"), and Key?
What if I enter 254 bits of key - does it pad to 256?
So far no obvious choice of settings has worked.
(Bloody idiot-proof computers never did play well with others...)
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