mac / openwrt problems?

[da]

Dear Lazyweb,

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..."

Comments

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Mostly for my own edification the next time I have to look this up; but:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=42682

suggests:

- leading $ or
- change the key by using a pass-phrase exactly 13 characters long (!?)

Or, I suppose we could've turned off WEP for the duration, if we're monkeying with the key anyway.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had to use a leading $ for my very first router. I'd forgotten about that. :) Isn't this stuff fun?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

No. ;)