Thread: Help required - iBook on wireless router

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I use my PowerBook with the little AirportExpress and had the wife's Toshiba connected as well. No issues. Let me know if it helps. If not, I can ask a mate at work who's the god of IT and administers Windows networks on his Mac.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I have a D-Link DI-524 wireless router sytem. I have both my laptop and desktop communicating wirelessly to the router which is using WEP encryption (yeah, I know, it's not as good as WPA).

However, I cannot work out how to get my daughter's Mac iBook to work wirelessly. We have to cable that to the router.

While she is away for a few days, I'd like to play around to set it up but I need a Mac expert to assist.

If there is anyone I can ring to assist, I'd appreciate it.

I tried the specified method of preceding the WEP encyption with the $ symbol but that didn't seem to work.

If I leave the network unencrypted I can connect.

Ron

Ron,

I have a Dlink 524p+ which I think is exactly the same as yours but with a print server so it should all be the same.

I am using wpa-psk. My mac has no trouble connecting at all.

See PM for contact details

Thanks, chaps, for the offers of help. It's a tad late now to call - I got tied up repairing the fluoros in the garage. Maybe tomorrow night.

Ron

Not sure about the encryption side as i haven't got mine encrypted but if all else fails with your above options you should be able to add her iBook MAC address to the router

Hmm, I just went to see what I could do with the Mac - but with my daughter away, I've got no idea where or even how to find the network set up on a Mac.

I shall have to wait until tonight when I can call someone who knows how to drive one. It ain't intuitive.

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

I shall have to wait until tonight when I can call someone who knows how to drive one. It ain't intuitive.

Ron

No, it's intuitive... it's just you are thinking like a PC user.

It doesn't have to be hard

See the menu bar at the top, the icon that looks like the radiation pattern from a antenna ... click that, select your network from the list, and enter your password. That should have you connected. If your network isn't there try "turn airport on" from the same menu.

This might help:



This is from the link I sent you:

Solution

Many third-party wireless access points use a WEP key or a password entered either as a string of hexadecimal numbers or as five ASCII characters.

To connect Mac OS X to a third-party wireless access point that is configured to use WEP, format your password one of these two ways:
1. Hexadecimal - precede the string with a dollar sign ($). For example: $123456789a
2. ASCII - enclose the characters in double quotes ("). For example: "magic"


1. So, click on the Airport icon on the menu bar.
If it is not there, click on the APPLE in top left corner, select System Prefernces, and then click on Network. You will probably get a screen similar to this:

Highlight AIRPORT by clicking on it and then click CONFIGURE. At the bottom of next screen there is a tick box "Show AirPort in menu bar" - make sure it is checked. Now you will have the radiation pattern icon on the menu bar as in the top pic.
2. After clicking the AirPort icnon on the menu bar, selkect your network from the list (should be there)
3. Enter password as described above: Either as a hexdecimal set of character with a "$" in front or simply the password in quotation marks "password".

Let me know if it works

Thank you gentlemen.

I am writing from the Mac - it's not an iBook, it's a PowerBook G4. (Gawd, the screen and keyboard are awful and the Firefox symbol bouncing out from the LHS of the screen is flaming annoying - and the bloody delete key is a backspace and delete!)

I dunno what I did differently but when I turned Airport on my network name was there so I selected it, put the password in (preceded by the $) and it connected.

Do I need to save that password or will the system remember it?

Ron