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Date:  Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:20:53 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Strange WEP setting

Julian, perhaps this thread will address your question:

http://www.cwnp.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=871&

They are probably talking about dynamic WEP keys. I do not know of an 
OS/2 driver which supports dynamic WEP, and this distribution mechanism 
is not part of the 802.11 standard (Cisco does it with Cisco EAP, 
however; they may be running Cisco AP hardware).

On 09/22/2005 08:49 am, Julian Thomas thus wrote :
> In trying to get wireless to work in a Hampton Inn the other night, I
> picked up their "help" document.  I should note that I had a good signal
> strength, and the process got as far as their authentication screen, but
> after that there was no internet connection.
>
> At any rate, their instructions (which you can see at
> http://bright.net/~lindaz/hampton-inn/hampton.html  say to set up a
> wireless network:
>
> You are going to add in the hhonors manually to do this select ADD on the
> bottom left corner and type the hhonors in the the field listed as Network
> Name (SSID).
>
> Also make sure you have checks in the option
> Data Encryption (WEP enabled) and This key is provided for me
> automatically.
>
> Now I have a XWLan profile with the ssid set, but don't understand
> (neither does XWLAN) WEP with an automatically provided key.  FWIW I was
> unable to get it to work in Win2k either; and the Cisco Aironet utility
> didn't seem to understand automatic key provision either.
>
> They told me at the desk the next day that there had been a lot of
> problems with their provider (apparently they use local ISPs).
>
>  
>   

-- 
Lewis
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