Hi everyone

Would be appreciative if anyone could provide some help on the following problem:

I have a network made up of an SMC7004AWBR wireless router and 3 computers. One PC (Windows XP) is connected via a wired connection to the router, the other PC (Windows 98) has a wireless connection using a Linksys wireless client and a notebook (Windows 2000) connected wirelessly. Both 128-bit WEP and MAC filtering on the router is active. The problem I have is that I cannot access the internet from the Window 98 PC (although the PC can display the SSID of the router). I do not have any problems connecting to the Internet using the Win XP and Win 2K computers. I have also checked that the WEP and MAC codes all tally.

What can be the problem? Could it be that Win98 does not support 128-bit WEP?

BTW, I have also switched the Linksys wireless client with a Prolink one and am still experiencing the same problem. Am at wits end...anyone any advice, please?

Thanks!

When entering the WEP codes, did you use ASCII or did you enter the hexdecimal digits?

I recently had a problem on my son's PC, where if I entered the WEP code in ASCII it would see the network but not actually connect (no ip address assigned), I got the hexdecimal codes from the router and typed them into the NIC/software and it connected. This was using a WUSB11 by linksys.

Hi TomCat

Thanks for your reply. Yes, have checked that and the WEP codes are in Hexadecimal...hmmm..could it be that Win98 cannot support 128-bit WEP?

Thanks!

This might help you: http://www.astromike.com/wireless.html