Re: [NTLK] 2100 Newbie Getting there slowly..

On Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 12:42 pm leigh brookes wrote:

> I can report my Wifi card now
> works fine and I can browse the
> web, however only with wep
> disabled, if I have it with WEP
> on and input the web key it just
> drops out after 'Processing DHCP'

I would recommend double checking the WEP Key on the router and the Newton. I found that using a HEX (hexadecimal) WEP key is more reliable than a String type key, when it comes to getting a Newton connected to a WEP encrypted network.

You can get random generated HEX (or ASCII) keys with Cut/Paste ability at:

<https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm>

mmm... random is good!

Ron

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