Thanks Ester, turned out the password was a hexidesimal password, and
I needed the dollar sign
At 03:12 PM 1/16/2008, you wrote:
Hi Cara and Dan
DE wrote:
>>>Hi all, I've got my Imac here now, and I'm getting an airport error
>>>when trying to connect to my wireless network. There's a password
>>>edid field, and it says that the network requires a password, I'm
>>>assuming this is the network key that it is requiring. I ender
>>>that, then hit continue, and I get an airport error that simply says
>>>that there was an error joining the selected network. not very much
>>>of an explanation in this error, so don't know whether it's the
>>>password or what.
CQ:
>> It might be that the setup is defaulting to a wep password (which
>>it does) and your router is set for wpa of some flavor... This
>>happened to me, and (as I found no way to change it during the setup)
>>the only way I could get around it was to change it later...
DE: >My router is set to a wep password, and I'm entering the wep
>password, and then just hitting continue.
Dan, if this is a WEP password, do you know whether it is set for ASCII or
Hex entry? I recalled that some routers use one or the other format. I
found this Apple document on "AirPort: Joining an encrypted Wireless
network"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424
and you might try putting the ASCII password in double quotes.
If it's HEX, some passwords can be entered with a dollar-sign, "$"
(not in quotes when entered) before the password.
Cheers,
Esther
Dan Eickmeier, Brantford Ontario Canada. Amateur radio station
va3ets. MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype:va3ets
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