EvEmer

The local hub I use is secure and needs a network key. Attaching to it is automatic. It doesn't work because somehow the proper key (10-digits) was overwritten by the wrong key (8-digits) and the wrong key is "remembered". Even though I retype the correct key twice as requested, it will not connect. How can I erase or disable the remembered network key?
Thanks for any help or references.

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.

streaker69

Reset the AP back to factory defaults using the method in the instructions. Reconfigure the AP back to the way it was.

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beakmyn

Thanks alot now what the hell am I supposed to do with all these chickens?

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Thorn

Chickens? I read it aloud and now I have a goat, an blue skinned woman armed with a sword, and mad looking big red guy with horns all in my living room. Plus the place smells like sulfur, and the goat isn't house-trained.

My wife is NOT happy.

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brwrdrvr

Sounds like it smells like sulfur and something else.

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Dutch

So THATS why Thorn has "An economy size bottle of Old Spice" on his x-mas wish list...



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Barry

Whatever you do, DO NOT pinch the blue chick's ass!!

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beakmyn

It's getting near Touron season up there, line the room with plastic, fill it with water and call it a sulfur spring and charge $100 /hr and serve wheat grass drinks. You'll be all set.

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brwrdrvr

Old spice? I thought he was wearing Brut.

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Dutch

No.. Then he would only be able to smell the goat and not the sulphur...

I still recall the MAD magazine spoof on BRUT 33 advertisments : It's BRUTal in a crowded place.


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dakkon2k

Hy-Karate was the best... the dogs err goats couldn't smell you sneaking up from errrr never mind.

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streaker69

Good thing it was only a blueskinned woman, and not this.

http://www.netstumbler.org/showpost....21&postcount=8

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EvEmer

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