Sounds like the exact setup I have. So it will get on line at an open coffee shop network but not your own. First thing I would check is the password for the local network (home). You need to type 0x before the password sometimes.
Ted
Sage advice. The 0x (that's zero-ecks) denotes a "hex" (or hexadecimal) string. Some WiFi drivers don't automatically discriminate between text password strings and hex password strings. In that case, you use 0x to tell the driver that the string is hex.
{The attempt to Access URL=http:// etc.etc.etc/ failed}That sounds a lot like you can't talk to a DNS server. DNS resolves domain names like www.apple.com to IP addresses like 17.112.152.32. When you configure TCP/IP to use DHCP to get an IP address, sometimes it fails to find the right DNS server address. I'll bet that if you only typed in IP addresses on your 3400c, it would find the websites just fine. Try that - use <17.112.152.32> to load Apple's website.
To fix this, you can try three things (that I can think of).
1) Check your router's settings to make sure that DNS forwarding is enabled. This will turn our router into a type of DNS repeater - your DHCP clients send it requests when they need to resolve a domain name, it forwards the request to your ISP's DNS server, gets the response, and sends it back to you. Out of the box, most routers do this.
2) Specify your router's IP address as a line in the "Name server addr:" field of the TCP/IP control panel.
3) Get your ISP's DNS server's IP address (you can usually find this info on your router's setup pages). Specify that as a line in the "Name server addr:" field in the TCP/IP control panel.
If none of those work, I'm sure we'll think of something else.
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