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11-29-2004
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Dl-514 Wep
I'm running my wifi network on my college net and originally had it without WEP. Tired of people messing around with my net, I decided to experiement with a WEP key. Since I had no experience setting up a key before, I Googled and found a site that converted a phrase into HEX format that the router wanted. So I reset it with the wizard and saw that it was up via netstumbler.
So I tried connecting to it through Windows. I entered in the long string that I got from the website, but got an error say that the network password needs to be either 40bits or 104bits. I can't get back into the wizard to remove the WEP key as I cannot connect to my router any more. What should I do? Thanks. |
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11-29-2004
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Illinois
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Routers have wired ports. If you connect your computer to one of the ports on the router, you can go to the admin pannel and remove wep. Though I suggest you try to work out the bumps and keep wep or wpa if your router supports it. For some reason that doesn't work (unlikely), there is a reset button on most routers that return the settings to thier original state. Avoid reseting it unless you really need to. You lose all your settings.
Last edited by RedSector : 11-29-2004 at 07:34 PM. |
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11-29-2004
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Did you do the math?
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RTFM for "Factory Default Reset" or something similar. This will set it back to the initial state, and you should be good to start over again. If you don't have the original, manuals can usually be downloaded as PDF files.
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DI-514 Revision C Start there, if the thing won't reset to factory defaults you may want to consider sending it in for repair/replacement. |
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11-30-2004
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The easy way to do HEX-conversions: Go to "Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map" If you mark for instance "2" there, you can see "U+0032" in the lower left corner. So the HEX-value for "2" is 32 and "v" is 76 and so on... So if you for instance want to write "P@ssw" in HEX instead of in alfanumerics it will be "5040737377" which would be the 40bit ten-digit WEP-key you should enter as HEX. And the same for 104bit WEP but then whith 26 characters/digits. - One ASCII Character is Eight (8) Bits - One HEX Character is Four (4) Bits - 40 bit (64 bit) ASCII WEP code has 5 characters - 40 bit (64 bit) HEX WEP code has 10 characters - 104 bit (128 bit) ASCII WEP code has 13 characters - 104 bit (128 bit) HEX WEP code has 26 characters Last edited by PPC1 : 11-30-2004 at 02:35 PM. |
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