Wireless WEP key

How do I find my WEP key to allow another computer on my secured wireless connection?

To get WEP key, connect your computer to one of the four ports on router using ethernet cable.
Open setup page of router by typing http://192.168.1.1 in browser;s address bar, and typing password as "admin" and no user name. Use your password if you have changed it earlier.
Go to wireless tab, at top in black bar
Go to wireless security sub-tab, in blue bar at top
Here note down wep key number 1. This will be your network key which you have to use on your wireless computers.

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    Summary:
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    Detail:
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    Does any of you know how we can do this in an automatic & transparent fashion?
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    If you use a GPO to manage the wireless it will disable the intel proset software. This can have a negative impact, as you may have user that like to use the Proset when not in the office.
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  • Decrypt a wireless WEP key from across the country

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    Hi George,
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  • How do locate my WEP Key to link wirelessly to my HP Photosmart Printer?

    My Photosmart Plus printer pad is asking me for my WEP Key so it will link up to the computers in my home, including my iMac. How do I locate the WEP Key?.... I have a Linksys Wireless G Router.

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  • I am trying to link our xbox and PC into our wireless network.  I am using an apple airport express and it is asking me for a WEP Key.  Where can I find my wep key?

    I am tyrying to link our xbox and PC int oour wireless network.  I am using an apple airport express and it is asking for my WEP Key.  Where do I find it?

    You should be able to setup WPA / WPA2 access, rather than WEP - which is old an less secure. (Unless your devices are too old for WPA??)
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    Airport does support the WEP protocol.
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  • "Invalid WEP Key" Error on 7410 All-in-On Wireless Set Up

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    If your WEP key is all alphabet then it is not WEP, it is WPA or WPA2.  As discussed above, this printer will not accept WPA2.
    Get into your router settings and change your wireless security type to WPA or WPA/WPA2 (you can keep the same passphrase).
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  • I have an hp wireless d110a printer how can i get another wep key for it to set it up?

    Have a new HP d110a wireless printer how do i get or put in another key that it will take to finish setting it up to work? I need help. I had one of these before,and had to send it back, and HP sent me another one just like it. It will not take anything i put in it. How do i fix this. I went through all the steps, and it still does not take anything. Need help.

    Hi,
    Only you (or relatives) know your WEP key, it should be in your access point (AP), you can logon to it and check this out.
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    BH
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  • Printer does accept the WEP key. any Solution, c309g wireless setup

    Hi, 
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    I have been on phone with the tech for almost 8 hrs but with no solution. The end result being, they suggested to replace the printer.
    when i and also with assistance with the technician, ran the Wireless setup wizard,  my network is detected. when i hit ok on it, it prompts for WEP. Then i enter it, it displays connecting and then displays "ERROR " "Invalid WEP". 
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    d> We also tried Manually adding the IP, subnet mask and default gateway .... but the ping does not work. It says 100% loss.
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    I am returning the printer to the stores in a day or 2days. Let me know if "returning the printer " is the right thing to do or is there anyone over here who could suggest me steps to resolve it.
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    Let's try an experiment.  Since I'm not sure of your exact configuration, I'd like  you to try some one of the following:
    If your Linksys wireless-router is also your ADSL modem -- disconnect the telephone line from the Linksys wireless-router and then power cycle the Linksys (unplug power, wait 30 seconds, plug power back in).  Leave the telephone line unplugged.
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    Power cycle the printer.  Wait 60 seconds for the wireless-router to power up completely and then run the C309g Wireless Setup Wizard from the printer's front panel (Setup -> Network -> Wireless Setup Wizard).
    If the printer connected successfully, then there is one more change we need to make and that is to set a static IP address for the printer.
    Open the printer's internal web page by browsing to its IP address.  Select Networking and then Wireless (802.11).  Under the IPv4 Configuration tab, select Manual IP:
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    Finish up by installing the SW on the computers you want to print from.  One more suggestion -- do not install the HP Customer Participation Program.
    Regards / Jim B / Wireless Enthusiasts
    ( While I'm an embedded wireless systems engineer at work, on this forum I do not represent my former employer, Hewlett-Packard, or my current employer, Microsoft )
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  • Tecra A8: Unable to set up a wireless connection with WEP KEY encription

    Hello.
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    Delete the wireless profile in the intel software under profiles. Then search for new networks while WEP or WPA is switched on in the router. The intel software should find it. Then press connect - it should ask you for the key. Type in the correct key or passphrase and it should work.

  • My new smart TV recognizes my network, & asks, "Please enter you WEP keys (10 or 26 hex digits)" but my netwotk uses a password of 6 characters. How can I get my smart TV to connect to my network?

    I have a current iMac with the latest OS update.
    My new smart TV recognizes my network, & asks, “Please enter your WEP keys (10 or 26 hex digits).  My  Airport Express, an early model, only requires a password of less than 10 characters.
    When I open “airport utility,”on my iMac it tells me this version doesn’t support my base station & says go to “Airport Service & Support.”  That’s what got me here.
    My earlier MacBook runs OS 10.6.8. Its version of  Airport Utility works. Its Airport ID has 17 characters, & uses the same password to access the internet, but it also has a “wireless password” of 26 characters, but only shows me the dots. i haven’t the foggiest notion  what the characters are, if I put them in there years ago when i did the original configuration, or if they got there otherwise..
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    Please check out the following AirPort User Tip on how to recover AirPort passwords.

  • How do i find WEP key for wrt54g

    Hi, my husband set up our system and i am trying to add a new wireless printer. He is out of the country for business, hence my problem. How do i find what the WEP key/ network key is? Thank you for your help.

    If you have other computer which had connected to this wireless network before, probably you can also use this wireless key finder on that computer to locate the WEP encryption key.
    Hope this helps.

  • How to view my WEP Key ?

    I need to connect to my Airport Extreme Wireless Network from a WIndow XP configured Macbook.
    WIndows requires the Hexadecimal WEP key to connect.
    How do i get this?
    To be sure, i have read many similar questions on this forum and tried :
    - The network preference panel. The "show password" tick option remains grayed out.
    - The Airport utility. The "equivalent network password" on the Base Station meny remains grayed out.
    - The Keychain access utility. I can only find the alphabetic passord, not the hexadecimal WEP key (of course tried to enter the alphabetic one, but did not work, so i assume it is expecting the hexadecimal one....).
    - In one of the posts, the contributor is bemoaning about an upgrade on snow leopard that makes getting to view the WEP key absurdly complicated. He provides a link :
    http://www.adamriggins.com/2009/11/16/how-to-view-saved-wifi-passwords-in-osx-sn ow-leopard/
    ... which unfortunately is not working anymore...
    I do clearly remember easily retrieving the WEP key 2 or 3 years ago, maybe from OS leopard at the time. I don't quite understand why it's been made so difficult now. Was there a security issue ? then is there an Apple note summarizing those facts and recommanding steps for previously set networks ?
    Anyone who can help on this is very welcome.
    Thanks in advance
    YM

    well first of all why are you using wep? don't you realize that all wep networks can be cracked in 15 minutes?
    older versions of windows xp do not know WPA/WPA2 if you are running the latest service pack then it should support WPA or WPA2
    if for the life of you cannot determine the WEP password no matter how hard you try. i found mine by going into keychain and clicked on show password and there was my wifi password
    then you might as well just download the latest version of airport utility, write down all the important settings, and then use the reset button to erase everything and then reconfigure it from scratch. and then you will know your password.
    while you are there, if you can turn on wpa, by all means turn it on

  • Can't set WEP key for broadcom-wl?

    I did a fresh install of Arch this morning at my office. I have an Acer Aspire laptop with a Broadcom wireless card that works with broadcom-wl (I've used the driver for a long time and it works perfectly... with open or WPA networks). The network at my office is WEP. So after installing the drive, adding lib80211 and wl to my MODPROBE (and !b43 !ssb), I reboot and see my wireless as eth0.
    If I try to iwconfig eth0 key XXXX-XXXX-XX or iwconfig eth0 essid WIFINAME key XXXX-XXXX-XX, no matter what combination I try, I get an error saying that it's an invalid argument for SET_ENCODE. I've check the Wiki and man pages for iwconfig, and can't seem to find any solution. Does anyone know why I can't put in a WEP key?
    ((Side note: everytime I've installed Arch, my wifi starts out as eth0 until I get connected and run pacman -Syu. Then I reboot and it shows up as wlan0, and my Atheros ethernet is eth0 or eth1.))

    Thanks for a response. So this is a fresh-from-the-oven install. I usually get my wifi connection set up and then create my user and go about setting everything else up. Meaning I've been trying as root.
    I can see the wireless network with iwlist scan and it shows up as encryption key: on. Also, I tried using each lib80211 mod or some combination thereof in my rc.conf. No dice.
    Lastly, since I didn't include it before, here's the exact error I get when I try to assign a WEP key with iwconfig:
    Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device eth0; Invalid argument.
    UPDATE: I can set the key using [x] between key and XXXXXXXXXX. However, any combination I'm trying of essid and key/enc isn't showing up in iwconfig. No errors, but my iwconfig information isn't changing. It's progress... I think.
    UPDATE #2: I can iwconfig eth0 essid linksys (the office next to us) and grab that one (I don't know their password ) and it updates iwconfig, but our own network doesn't update iwconfig when I run iwconfig essid. >.<
    Last edited by mtcupps (2011-06-17 18:20:02)

  • WVC54GCA setup won't take WEP key

    Hi - I'm setting up this Linksys WVC54GCA Wireless-G Monitoring Camera and can't get it to take my WEP settings.The setup screen says, after you select 128 bit WEP, to leave the passphrase field empty and enter the WEP key on the next screen. When you hit enter you get an error saying that the WEP key should be 26 digits and and you cannot continue!
    If I turn WEP off and do it without security it all works fine, so how am I supposed toenter the WEP key? Seem like a bug. Endless loop!
    hanks
    Mike

    Hey just had the same problem as you and found the way around it.  It looks like the Wizard has a bug in it that you have to use the Pass phrase not the pass key. 
    The way around it is to use the web interface, use the IP address that has been assigned to the camera as the web address in your browser, you can see this in the wizard or on your wireless router.
    all the settings to manage the wifi can be found there, you need to use that area to manage everything else for the camera anyway.
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  • Airport (via Keychain I think) Keeps Changing My Wireless Network Key

    I think my airport express utility is is changing the stored 128 bit WEP key for my XP wireless utility. Is is possible that this could happen via keychain? If so, how do I delete keychain entries in windows XP? Thanks.

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