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Rich Hawley - 2011-08-25 11:51 PM
Nice CESD...you alluded to them, but a couple of points I think worth including that come to mind...
1. When keying in WEP/WPA/Passphrases...on some machines, using some software (not all and not most, but a few) capital letters versus small case letters will give you different values...make sure that you match the case as it should be.
2. Stress that if problems arise, to use an open hotspot that doesn't use any encryption. As a matter of fact it is often easier to reset the home router to an open system first to insure a wireless connection can be made, and then to reapply wifi security afterwards.
3. A lot of information can be gained by knowning how to enter the router setup, i.e. using "routerlogin.net" with Netgear routers and "password" for the password. That will show what wireless devices are connected to a home network.
4. While most all of the drivers are available in the HCL...some people still will download drivers from the internet. Some pocketpc drivers will state they are for Windows CE, but they will not work. Many manufacturers wrote CE drivers for pocketpc that will not run at all on HPCs....3COM comes to mind. And those drivers will install fine without errors, but still will not drive the wireless cards.
5. I have an old Ambicom or some brand CF wifi card that works fine in my CF slot, but will not work in the pcmcia slot with an adapter...go figure?
That's all that comes to the top of my mind right now...but was throwing in my two cents for what it is worth...which is about a penny.
Fantastic
! I'll deal with each in turn
1. Great point, added to step 6 and 7
2. I have added to Step 16 the idea that if you can't modify your own WAP, try and find a public open hotspot and test against that. In the UK we have BTOpenZone and BTFON which are national open access
(ish
) nodes. Is there anything like that in the US?
3. I have added an additional note to Step 5 about finding accessing to the web interface/CLI
4. Note added to step 8
5. Great tip! Added as new Step 4
I also added a note about checking the slot pins to section 4