WEP Key Automatically Provided - VISTA

[Vogel515]

I am trying to connect to my network at work, I have a laptop with Windows Vista and directions for XP.

When I try and set up the connection through the Vista - "Manually Connect to a wireless network" prompts it does not allowed me to enter that the WEP security/key passphrase is automatically provided.

Anyone know how to bypass this window? In XP that was an option under Advanced network settings when you configured the connection but I can not figure out how to do it in Vista.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Aberforth]

I am not sure I understood properly but I connect to my router from Vista without any problems. Click Start>Connect To> Select Wireless Networks and look for your router/adapter etc. Then it will prompt for the key, sometimes vista refuses to connect to the XP machines, to solve this problem goto services and start Cryptographic service (there is another service which I don't recall).

btw I can easily break wep passwords...so it's not that secure 🙂

 

[Vogel515]

Hello Aberforth, WEP is not very secure, but there are actually two layers of protection where I am working.

It's a PEAP system, so it requires a username/pw once I connect.

The problem is, in XP I can simply select "the server will automatically provide a passphrase", in vista this option is not available.

Here is a link of someone with a similar problem:

http://www.wirelessforums.org/...tomatically-37329.html

There may even be an answer in that forum, the problem is its a newsgroup, to read the thread I need to download something and I don't have administrative rights on the computer I am using now. The computer I am trying to connect to the internet I do have administrative rights on, but I can't connect to the network.