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laptop wireless won't connect to WEP connections

mentalcrisis00

mentalcrisis00

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My Dell laptop has a Dell 1490 wireless card under the hood and it's been having connection problems lately. There are a couple of connection at my college, I look at them in the wireless connections program in windows vista and it tells me Excellent signal for both. They both have WEP security enabled and when I try to connect to it windows says the wireless device didn't answer and that the connectivity source is to low. This is retarded because there are hundreds of other students that connect to these wireless sources with no problems, and windows doesn't even ask me for the password.

The weird thing is that there are 2 low signal sources in both locations, like 1 bar. They aren't security enabled and I can connect to them with no problem. I had a windows error a week ago and it said that the WLAN service failed to start or something.

The laptop connects easily when I hook it up to a LAN cable. I just got the laptop back from DELL also and they said all the hardware was working properly.

Any thoughts? should I try reinstalling the WLAN driver?
 
Are you supposed to have access to the two WEP protected wireless networks? If so, do you have problems connecting to ANY other WEP protected networks? Your college should have staff on-site that run the network, what do they have to say about it? Reinstalling the WLAN driver won't hurt anything...maybe it will fix it 😉
 
Yes I have access to the 2 WEP wireless networks, windows doesn't get as far as asking me for the pass phrase. I click the network, it says connecting for a few seconds, and says the network hub did not respond or something.

Also if it doesn't have to do with a MAC the staff at my college have no idea. Because the network here is made up of all MACs. I will ask them though maybe it's a problem with the network lately, which isn't uncommon.

JackMDS I get a 404 not found or cannot to connect to webpage when I go to the link you provided. Also tried going to the main page and clicked on the WEP password page and same result.

I'll try a driver reinstall when I get home tonight
 
Originally posted by: mentalcrisis00

JackMDS I get a 404 not found or cannot to connect to webpage when I go to the link you provided. Also tried going to the main page and clicked on the WEP password page and same result.
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It is working Now, but YMMV the server is quirky in the last few days. It is in Atlanta, may be some post tornado problems.

In any case the issue is that some WEP ignitions do not process well passphrases.

It might work with the original HEX string. Try to obtain form the campus IT the WEP Hex string.
 
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