Matt Emson wrote:
Best advice, sit directly by the router (if you can, so close the aerials are almost touching) and try again. This often helps. Make sure you realise that the HEX and plain ASCII keys for WEP are not interchangable - the ASCII is a 7bit representation of the HEX, so if the card wants HEX and the router wanst ASCII, make sure you do the correct conversion.There should be 4 ASCII characters for every 8 HEX digits.
Even if they both work with ASCII it won't work unless the software on both ends is from the same vendor. The ASCII to binary translation wasn't standardized in WEP (as it is in WPA) and everyone did it differently. Generally speaking for a Mac this means you need an Apple base station.
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