Re: AirPort password?

[Nancy Haitz]

1. The access point is an Asante FriendlyNet FR3002AL wireless
hub/router, wired (Ethernet) to (TimeWarner's) Motorola SURFboard
SB5100 cable modem.
2. The only other Mac on the network is wired (Ethernet) to that
hub/router, and I verified that no AirPort code is stored in that
Keychain.
3. Now I wonder if my assumption of a wrong password is correct. At
that point in the Airport Setup Assistant where it calls for a
password, no matter what I enter, the result is: "An error occurred
joining the selected wireless network. Would you like to try again?"
Steve
Did you enable a password on the router? The default is usually no 
password
required to connect. Some routers have trouble with collecting 
passwords
from Macs via Airport.

Use the wired Mac to access the router to check if WEP encryption is 
enabled
and to see what the password is. The Router should be accessible via 
your
favorite browser.
John
Steve,
I too have that router, and went round and round setting up my iMac 
Flat Panel with an Airport card. After much digging on Apple's web site 
I found that my hexadecimal password required that I type "$" in front 
of the password when using the Airport Setup assistant.

Use John's suggestion to access the router from the wired Mac and find 
out what the password should be.  Then take a look at Apple's article 
106424 "AirPort: Joining an encyrpted wireless network."  That should 
help you figure out which characters you might need to add.

I also found it helped to restart the router and all the Mac's 
connected to it.  Yeah, I know you should not have to restart a machine 
running OSX...

Nancy
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