John Clemente wrote:

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 .

It was the Intel 2200BG that had the problem in the early days but if you're using GenMAC 2.2, I think we can rule this issue out.

Yes XP does connect as does the i-phone

I mean XP on the SAME MACHINE, not in general (i.e. using the same card in the same machine) - or do you only have eCS on this laptop?

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

If the encryption is not set correctly you will get what appear to be communications set up errors.

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

 Well to set up WPA you need to select one of them - try one then the other.

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

OK, you don't need the view option set. But are there WPA options displayed in the pull down menu on the encryption page.

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.

Yes this all sounds to me like the wrong kind of encryption set up.

Regards,
John Clemente