wireless connection issue

[Tony Pursell]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 11:08 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 13 June 2011 10:05, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > Right, did that.  Called Piggott.  I can not connect to that one at
> > all.  I put in the correct password and it will not connect.  First
> > time I tried NW manager demanded at 128 bit but they have just a WEP
> > security setup, which has far fewer characters.  Not sure what that
> > means.
> 
> For WEP it should be a string of hex digits (0 to 9 and A to F)  26
> characters if I remember correctly.  Some routers may allow a normal
> string of words to be used and will convert this to the hex string, in
> that case you need to get the hex string from the router to put into
> NM.
> 
> By the way WEP is not secure any more, someone with the right
> knowledge can hack into your network.  You should change the router to
> WPA.
> 
> Colin
> 

Even if a router has no WEP or WPA, it may still block users by having
an access list, i.e a list of MAC addresses that are allowed to access
the router.  AFAIK there is only a lock symbol on the list of available
access points if WEP or WPA is used.  There is not a lock symbol if
access is blocked by an access list.

So check for an access list on the router.