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Originally Posted by itsnotme
Wow, I'm impressed by how much information you've given to us! I'm happy that you remembered to give us the make and model of the AP you're talking about! I'm also shocked that you gave us the firmware version on the AP you're mentioning also!
Go read the welcome desk son, and come back when you learn to make competent posts.
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You gentlemen are way over experienced and too well experienced to appreciate the frustrations of a full fledged novice. I respect you and solicit your indulgence. The last time I understood all of the hardware/software in a computer was in 1953 at Project Whirlwind, MIT Digital Computer Lab (check it out at the Smithsonian). Since then I’ve gotten real old, a lot dumber, and the computer world has expanded a number of million times. Enough blabbering personal history.
I use a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop with Windows XP, Professional. To make use of a local hub provided by the manager of the condos where we live I click on:
Start>connect to>wireless internet connections
and a screen comes up showing the wifi networks within range. The manager’s hub is identified as a “Security-enabled wireless network (with a strong 5-bar signal)”. The screen advises: “To connect to this network, click Connect. You might need to enter additional information.” Upon clicking, the next screen wants a “Network Key”, but my imbedded software (probably written by someone at Microsoft, but who knows) has inserted from some mysterious memory location a key shown as eight black dots. I have used the hub successfully in the past, and I know the 10-digit key it needs. I clear the automatically provided key and enter the correct key in the blank and in the confirmation blank. It doesn’t work.
The connection used to function fully automatically and very well until one day I clicked on the Earthlink webmail page to have my computer remember my Earthlink password (responding to the helpful[?] inquiry “Do you want this computer to remember this password?”), which coincidentally is 8-digits long. I suspect, but am not ready to assert, that this password has gotten into the memory location accessed by the wifi connection software as the Network Key.
If you gentlemen have any clue as to the machinations of this software, and any clue out of the morass, I will be forever grateful. If not, I will delete my registry from your otherwise valuable forum and leave you in peace.
Best regards,
EvEmer