[I'm replying to my original post because everyone can see the replies anyway.]
The network is now working, and I have no answer why. :( My friends called the owner and he had his IT guy come out. He fiddled with the router on a wired connection and now it works. Of course the friends don't have any idea what he did (e.g. reset, changed DHCP range, or any other suggestion made here or in my brain :). One interesting point is that the sheet they were given had the password as (e.g.) "Towel1234" and they reported he said "I told them "towel1234". We then had a discussion about them misreading his writing but the handout looked to me like a Word table and I assume it just auto-capitalized. :( We thought we'd tried lower case the first time, but we weren't rigorous about it and we may not have. This time it worked fine as "towel1234", we had two X220s plus three Android phones plus an iPod all connected at the same time. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Watch for capitalization, especially that first letter! - - Andrew mailto:[email protected] Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 3:49:03 PM, I wrote: > I know this is a bit tenuous, but a friend rented a vacation house > that came with WiFi. He powered up his X220, selected the owner's > SSID, and entered the WPA key. Connected no problem. > Meanwhile, we cannot connect Android (3 tried) nor an iPod (1 > tried). In all those cases it fails authentication. Next time I > visit I may take two more ThinkPads to test. > It's just a simple Cisco E2500 router. I suggested he ask the > homeowner for admin password, or for the guest password, but I'm > curious and concerned. > I'm 99% sure it's not MAC filtering (the obvious choice) because the > homeowner isn't a techie and the friend said he just connected, they > didn't do anything beforehand. I also tried disconnecting his > ThinkPad from the net, in case they had a weird "1 address only" > DHCP config, and I tried static IP with my phone (though expect I > didn't have the DNS right, I figured it should still connect to the > router and I wasn't worried about Internet Access at that point). > Nothing worked. Is there anything else that might, or some > uniqueness about ThinkPads or the X220 that would explain the ease > of connection? > Thanks! > - - > Andrew mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
