Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
> On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Mike Baker wrote:
>
>> The PCI card "sees" the base station but it won't connect to it. The
>> Internet Utility helper doesn't help since the adapter is not an
>> Airport card and the connection is not made through an ethernet port
>> or
>> internal modem. So right now the adapter is about as useful as a
>> brick. Any advice on getting it to connect to the base station? I
>> did install the software that came with the card.
In any event, try turning any encryption in the base station off until
you get the adapter working.
Are you seeing a signal from the base station?
What does the card's utility software show?
>
> If you're using a WEP or WPA password, you may have to specify it
> differently than you would an Airport, by specifying that it's hex or
> ascii key. ISTR you preface the WEP key with $ or possibly 0x to
> specify a hex key.
>
> Look in the manual that came with the card.
That's true with WEP. I haven't encountered any WPA stuff that doesn't
use the same ASCII to hex/binary conversion process.
--
Clark Martin
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Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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