wireless connection issue

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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Tony Pursell
<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
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I can access using Windows 7 on the very same computer.  I think this
means there is no access list.