ASUS 330-g: can it do WPA-PSK?

Yes, I know this is off topic, not being ecs-specific. But there are 
people here who use wireless and aren't fools, so it just attracts 
questions like this, especially when there's pretty much no traffic. (And 
hey, if I were running a non-OS2 laptop, it would have some kind of 
native, supported wireless capability, and who'd need the 330g?)

I've been using that frustrating little box with WEP-128 for a long time, 
just around the house since I've had little success making it work on any 
public system. But really, WEP? How little do I care about privacy?

Anyway, the Asus says it supports WPA-PSK (w TKIP encryption). And my 
D-Link WAP says it supports that (TKIP selected), and it does: my Macs can
talk to it. And my Linksys WAP, the same thing.

But a couple of long sessions trying things repeatedly and with variations
have given me no success with the ASUS using WPA. I would have tried WPA2 
also, but the dlink doesn't support it (IIRC -- I'm not at that site now) 
and I ran out of time for further blind thrashing about.

Is there some official magic for this? Am I supposed to enter the 
passphrase in hex, like a WEP key? Or what?


-- 
Dan Drake
dd@dandrake.com
http://www.dandrake.com/

Hello Dan,
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:56:31 GMT, Dan Drake wrote:

>I've been using that frustrating little box with WEP-128 for a long time, 
>just around the house since I've had little success making it work on any 
>public system. But really, WEP? How little do I care about privacy?
I haven't tried that with my Asus WL330, for that I use an old PCMCIA card,
in my T23 laptop.

>But a couple of long sessions trying things repeatedly and with variations
>have given me no success with the ASUS using WPA. I would have tried WPA2 
>also, but the dlink doesn't support it (IIRC -- I'm not at that site now) 
>and I ran out of time for further blind thrashing about.

>Is there some official magic for this? Am I supposed to enter the 
>passphrase in hex, like a WEP key? Or what?
I use the WL330g and WPA (TKIP). No, it's not in hex, the key I use is a 
63 bits key with printable ASCII-characters. I got this key from
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
I had some problems getting it to work, I tried several keys before I had 
a working one. I don't know if the problem was with the Asus or my DSL-router
(a Thompson Speedtouch).

Kind regards,
Frank

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:23:30 UTC, "Frank"
<Frank@n0.spam.invalid> wrote:

> I use the WL330g and WPA (TKIP). No, it's not in hex, the key I use is a 
> 63 bits key with printable ASCII-characters. I got this key from
> https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
> I had some problems getting it to work, I tried several keys before I had 
> a working one. I don't know if the problem was with the Asus or my
DSL-router
> (a Thompson Speedtouch).
>

Very interesting. Very odd. I see some long experiment sessions ahead, but
as long as I know it _can_ be made to work, it's worth trying.

Many thanks.


-- 
Dan Drake
dd@dandrake.com
http://www.dandrake.com/

This may be irrelevant, but my Asus Eee PC (running Xandros) supports 

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:04:35 UTC, Brendan McCullough 
<bren@nospam.mccullough.ca> wrote:

> This may be irrelevant, but my Asus Eee PC (running Xandros) supports 
> WPA2 passwords only if they have no spaces in them.

That in particular can't be my problem, but I see I'll have to check on 
whether the characters in the password affect the operation.

-- 
Dan Drake
dd@dandrake.com
http://www.dandrake.com/