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mac / openwrt problems?
Wednesday, 7 June 2006 11:20 pmDear Lazyweb,
I ran into a networking problem with my mac this evening. I was at my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
emaki's house, and tried to connect to his wireless network. I chose his network, changed the encryption-choice from "WEP Password" to "40/128-bit hexidecimal key" and typed in the appropriate WEP key (from a piece of paper which he's used with other house-guests before).
My trusty mac... said the key was incorrect.
I tried each of the menu-options (WEP Password; ascii WEP key) and none of them worked.
Anybody know of a reason why a mac with built-in airport-extreme wouldn't work with a linksys router running openwrt?
(I'm looking for something less-obvious than "you had the wrong key", which I think we might rule out.)
Also, he didn't have any sort of MAC-address locking.
*shrug*
Anyway, had a good evening; watching british comedy, eating fusion curry and so on. Just a bit frustrated why my computer didn't work, esp. when I'd just told Eric "the great thing is everything Just Works..."
I ran into a networking problem with my mac this evening. I was at my friend
emaki's house, and tried to connect to his wireless network. I chose his network, changed the encryption-choice from "WEP Password" to "40/128-bit hexidecimal key" and typed in the appropriate WEP key (from a piece of paper which he's used with other house-guests before).My trusty mac... said the key was incorrect.
I tried each of the menu-options (WEP Password; ascii WEP key) and none of them worked.
Anybody know of a reason why a mac with built-in airport-extreme wouldn't work with a linksys router running openwrt?
(I'm looking for something less-obvious than "you had the wrong key", which I think we might rule out.)
Also, he didn't have any sort of MAC-address locking.
*shrug*
Anyway, had a good evening; watching british comedy, eating fusion curry and so on. Just a bit frustrated why my computer didn't work, esp. when I'd just told Eric "the great thing is everything Just Works..."
