From: "John Clemente" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:25:53 -0400
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Ed Durrant wrote:
> John Clemente wrote:
>> Gentleman all:
>>
>> I have been reading the "Is there such a device?" thread since Jim 
>> S.'s first post a month ago in hopes of picking up enough information 
>> about router architecture to help me successfully connect my TP42 P 
>> to routers using encryption when booted to either RC3 or RC5.  I 
>> would rather work these thing out my self and not have to ask the 
>> dumb question if at all possible.
>>
>> While the "such a device" discussion was a mile wide and my 
>> understanding of it perhaps an inch deep, if that, I found it 
>> interesting and did pick up some hints.   In the hope that the 
>> problem is something simple I am missing or that a small change to 
>> the DHCP configuration file will solve the problem here it goes.
>>
>> First, I can connect freely to all open routers in hot spots 
>> throughout the country without any problem.  That said, I am often at 
>> locations where routers are encrypted and the owners give me the WEP 
>> password to permit me to connect.  The routers are usually various 
>> models of NETGEAR or Linksys.
>> Although I think I have used every possible variation offered by the 
>> Wireless LAN Monitor v. 3.10 I have never succeeded in getting a WEP 
>> connection.  The passwords are usually ten number/letter combinations 
>> which I deduce are for 64 bit encryption.  The passwords work in XP 
>> when I boot to it and in the i-phone with no problem.
>>
>> One variation will get me an IP to the LAN in Ecs but not any traffic 
>> over the WAN - internet.  If I set up a profile for the location and 
>> specify an IP  (select "manually" rather than DHCP on the TCP/IP tab) 
>> the router then gives me that IP, but I can not then transfer any 
>> data to the internet, although I can get to the router setup page and 
>> other locations inside the LAN. Can anyone shine a light on what I am 
>> doing wrong?
>>
>> Regards
>> John Clemente
>> Albany, NY
>>
> Can you please state which version of GenMAC you are using and what 
> the WLAN in your system is.
I am using GenMac 2.2.0 and the card is a mini PCI intel 2200 WLan
> If you are not using the latest version (2.2 I think) of GenMAC that 
> could be the issue and I remember a long time ago there were some 
> problems with hardware compatibility between some models of Thinkpad 
> Intel WLAN cards and Linksys routers when running in WEP mode. If 
> however you have Windoze on this system and it connects OK,  that 
> would rule out this hardware problem .
Yes XP does connect as does the i-phone
>
> With a WEP key, there is an option to generate the key from a 
> passphrase as well as entering in the long list of characters and 
> numbers - which method are you using?
I tried both,  entering the paraphrase in Key #1 and generating with the 
paraphrase using using  Neesus Datacom  generator
>
> One last point - are you sure that the routers are using WEP not WPA ?
No but I tried all four options without success using DCHP
> Windows will sense and switch, with GenMAC/XWLAN you must select the 
> correct option, WEP64, WEP128, WPA1 or WPA2. These last two options 
> also have two more options with them TKIP and Shared key (I think).
I did not try Tkip or Shared key as I did not understand them
> Get any of the  combinations different and you will either not connect 
> or connect but not be able to send traffic.
>
> The WPA options are only available with the WPA supplicant that comes 
> with the latest versions of GenMAC.
The Supplicant is loaded but I do not understand what it does although I 
have selected the view option
>
> I'd leave the card set to DHCP,  don't set a static IP address.
As I said earlier I tried both and did get an IP with the paraphrase  
and static IP.  but I had no Wlan data moving.

Regards,
John Clemente