Heres the situation..
I'm at a house with 7 guys in college and I just through away our crappy netgear router because lets be honest.. thats a joke. Anyways I got a Linksys router, and when I put a password "blahblah4blahblah" on it for WAP, everyone can connect to it perfectly, and there are NO problems.
However, one of my friends has a crappy old laptop and can't connect to WAP connections! He can only connect to WEP connections..
No problem, I'll just set our settings to WEP, and same password. Nope, the passphrase doesn't work, but whats weirder is that the keys I get from clicking on "generate" that are lik KJS87S27JSA7BSDJ9 work when I type them into the password box when trying to connect to my wireless signal, but its a real iffy signal and disconnects you all the time, and then you have to go back in the wireless advance properties and type in the huge generated key thingy again... Its a huge pain.
If my friends old laptop allowed him to type in WAP we wouldn't be having any problems..
So I need some help on what to do..
I guess theres two ways to fix this
1) Figure out why WEP is so messed up and doesn't allow the passphrase to work for anyone.
2) Take my friends laptop from 2002 and find a solution to his wireless card not being able to connect to WAP connections.
I'm at a house with 7 guys in college and I just through away our crappy netgear router because lets be honest.. thats a joke. Anyways I got a Linksys router, and when I put a password "blahblah4blahblah" on it for WAP, everyone can connect to it perfectly, and there are NO problems.
However, one of my friends has a crappy old laptop and can't connect to WAP connections! He can only connect to WEP connections..
No problem, I'll just set our settings to WEP, and same password. Nope, the passphrase doesn't work, but whats weirder is that the keys I get from clicking on "generate" that are lik KJS87S27JSA7BSDJ9 work when I type them into the password box when trying to connect to my wireless signal, but its a real iffy signal and disconnects you all the time, and then you have to go back in the wireless advance properties and type in the huge generated key thingy again... Its a huge pain.
If my friends old laptop allowed him to type in WAP we wouldn't be having any problems..
So I need some help on what to do..
I guess theres two ways to fix this
1) Figure out why WEP is so messed up and doesn't allow the passphrase to work for anyone.
2) Take my friends laptop from 2002 and find a solution to his wireless card not being able to connect to WAP connections.