win98 and WEP

[Balt]

I have a wireless router (obviously) connected to an XP machine.

I have a USB wireless adapter for the 98 machine. I've installed the software that came with it.

I can go to my wireless card under the network settings in the control panel and enable WEP and set SSID and so on and so forth...

but I can't enter an encryption key for WEP. I can't even find a field in which to enter a key. I can set it to 40-bit and 128-bit, but that screen contains no field in which to enter the key. Everything works fine if I turn encryption off, but I'd like to at least have a tiny bit of security.

Stupid, I know. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

Some drivers I've seen for wireless NICs only use quasi-auto generated WEP values (say created with a passphrase) - not manually entered numerical settings.

Is it possible some other phrase you have entered is doing just this?

I'm not saying that this is you - but it is possible (and not very desirable).

Good luck,

Andy

 

[Balt]

Originally posted by: Fencer128
Hi,

Some drivers I've seen for wireless NICs only use quasi-auto generated WEP values (say created with a passphrase) - not manually entered numerical settings.

Is it possible some other phrase you have entered is doing just this?

I'm not saying that this is you - but it is possible (and not very desirable).

Good luck,

Andy

Ack. Assuming this is the case, is there any way for me to determine was that automatically generated value is? I can specify a key with my router, but if I can't discover what the key is for the wireless adapter I believe I'm up the creek.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Maybe look in the registry, and find the auto-generated key data, and replace it with your own?