Cannot connect to password protected Airport created on my IMac

Hi,
I have enabled internet sharing on my imac g5. It works beautifully for my iphone and lenovo laptop if there is no password. Once I turn on encryption either 40 or 128 wep static the PC can no longer connect to the wireless. The iphone has no problem.
How do I get the windows pc to understand the password?
Adapter is a Intel Wifilink 5100 AGN.
Thanks,

This is a known problem when using OS X's Internet sharing to share the internet wirelessly.
The solution is to get an inexpensive wireless router and use that instead of your iMac.

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