Hello, I am using a mac running macosx. It has a built in airport card so I ought to be able to connect to the internet wirelessly, right. I have a wanadoo live box (which my mac can detect), but when I try to connect, it asks me for a WEP password. Does anyone know what its all about. i live in France, and when I went into the France Telecom shop and told them i had a mac, the man looked at me like I was something he had just trodden in.

WEP = Wired Equivalent Privacy

Details available here (http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n100684.asp).

Thanks for the link. I found a WEP password in the smallprint in some of the bumf they gave me.
After inputting it says:

The selected network uses an Access Control List to restrict access and this computer is not on the list. See the administrator for details.

I don't know how to get past this message. Is it something I need to take up with Wanadoo/France telecom or is it a setting on my computer. I certainly can't find anything about it in the system preferences.

Is it something I need to take up with Wanadoo/France telecom or is it a setting on my computer. I certainly can't find anything about it in the system preferences.

It'll be somewhere on the computer:).

As I don't use an Apple though, I have no idea where the ACL would be located:(.

Sorry.

Thanks. I'll look for it some more

To find my WEP i had to check in the Router settings. To get to them i had to type 198.162.1.1 in to my browser.

Hope this helps in some way. Wireless networks are not my stong point :blush:

Thanks vidster. I tried that. i think its 192.168.1.1 actually but it asks me for my username and password before loading the page. It keeps saying its the wrong username/password even though I know its not. Is there a special password for this . I've just been using my normal login/administrator one.

I always get those mixed up :blush:

Try using admin for both username and password. If it works, make sure you change them once you are in :wink:

On my netgear router the default was username 'admin' and password 'password' - might be worth a try as well :)

Thanks. I have made some progress. It worked when I used admin as the username and password. Unfortunately my router settings all come up in French. As if it wasn't hard enough to understand in English. Every time I click on the button to translate to English, safari goes and crashes. Those goddam french must really hate apple.

Try it through a different browser Bellacboy. IE should be the first one to try but mine 'seems' to respond better through Firefox. Sometimes IE will crash when i try to make a change.

Okay, I think I've set it up right. There was a page where I put in my airport ID (which I found in my network preferences) It still asks mefor a WEP password when I try to connect. I've tried the big long WEP key and my various other passwords. It still says error connecting to wireless network. Any more ideas? Could it just be that my mac is not compatible with the livebox or should there be a way to do it?

The easiest way to find out is to disable WEP altogether until you get it sorted.
As for passwords... I had to enter my full ISP email address for the username and the password was my log in password i use to connect to my ISP.

Sorry to keep asking questions, but what is my ISP email address. Is it the 192.168.1.1 thingy or something else?

If the Wanadoo liveboxes are the same in France as they are here there's a button that puts them in 'pairing mode' that will allow new devices to connect, otherwise it will deny access. If there are buttons try pressing them (I think it was button 1 on the one my housemate had) and a light should start flashing, then try reconnecting to it.

It is the first email address you had from your isp. So if you were using AOL it would be something like Bellacboy@aol.com :)

Wireless networks are not my stong point :blush:

Bull***t.
I now have wireless internet. The world is my oyster! Thank you vidster!
I have no security on it but to be honest, Bellac is so far behind the times, that I doubt anyone living round here has ever even heard of the internet so I'm probably safe.

LMAO! :hihi: Glad you got it sorted :wink:

You will now be able to go in and turn the WEP back on and set your own password (one that you can easily remember) :)

If you do want security, enable WPA rather than WEP (assuming you get the choice!). It's much safer, and aren't WEP passwords always the long hex (hashed) keys?