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I've been trying to get my PSP connected to my wireless internet all night. I finally tried just turning off the WEP and what do you know, it worked! Why is that? I know the key was correct (and it works on my PS3 just fine). After this, I decided to try to connect Windows XP on my Macbook (through Bootcamp) to the wireless. Before this, it would always have trouble locating an IP. And of course, it worked! But why? The internet works fine for the Mac OS, and I can connect the Windows XP to other wireless internets (ie at my friend's house), so why did I need to do this now? I'm using Ambit Broadband if that makes a difference.
I've read something about needing a 13 character WEP password (mine is much longer), at least for the PSP. Does this relate at all to my situation? I've also read that keeping the WEP off isn't exactly safe, but is not terrible. I'll probably turn it back on once I'm done with what I need to do, but I doubt anything bad would happen if I left it off...
Thank you
74.69.117.101 ( talk) 06:29, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello all. Kubuntu 12.04. I love wmpinboard (a little app that manages a things-to-do-list) but want to have the same to-do list at home and at work. The to-do notes are stored in a file that is apparently hard-coded to ~/.wmpinboarddata. My first thought was to use a hard link:
ln ~/.wmpinboarddata ~/Dropbox/.wmpinboarddata
(and then do the same at the office), but this doesn't work because wmpinboard over-writes the ~/.wmpinboarddata file and gives it a new inode number, so the link is lost and the files differ. Can anyone advise? Robinh ( talk) 10:09, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello, guy from last night here. After disabling the WEP, I reenabled it later, only to find that I could not connect to the internet at all. What was really weird was that my girlfriend's macbook (lion, with wifi), was able to get to the internet fine. Airport kept self assigning an IP on my macbook and the PS3 was not able to connect. On my girlfriend's macbook, I went back to the router and shut off the WEP. And now everything works...what a mess. Why was the one macbook able to work and not mine? I would think it might be a wrong password or something on my part, but the PS3 wasn't working either. Any thoughts? 74.69.117.101 ( talk) 17:32, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
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I've been trying to get my PSP connected to my wireless internet all night. I finally tried just turning off the WEP and what do you know, it worked! Why is that? I know the key was correct (and it works on my PS3 just fine). After this, I decided to try to connect Windows XP on my Macbook (through Bootcamp) to the wireless. Before this, it would always have trouble locating an IP. And of course, it worked! But why? The internet works fine for the Mac OS, and I can connect the Windows XP to other wireless internets (ie at my friend's house), so why did I need to do this now? I'm using Ambit Broadband if that makes a difference.
I've read something about needing a 13 character WEP password (mine is much longer), at least for the PSP. Does this relate at all to my situation? I've also read that keeping the WEP off isn't exactly safe, but is not terrible. I'll probably turn it back on once I'm done with what I need to do, but I doubt anything bad would happen if I left it off...
Thank you
74.69.117.101 ( talk) 06:29, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello all. Kubuntu 12.04. I love wmpinboard (a little app that manages a things-to-do-list) but want to have the same to-do list at home and at work. The to-do notes are stored in a file that is apparently hard-coded to ~/.wmpinboarddata. My first thought was to use a hard link:
ln ~/.wmpinboarddata ~/Dropbox/.wmpinboarddata
(and then do the same at the office), but this doesn't work because wmpinboard over-writes the ~/.wmpinboarddata file and gives it a new inode number, so the link is lost and the files differ. Can anyone advise? Robinh ( talk) 10:09, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello, guy from last night here. After disabling the WEP, I reenabled it later, only to find that I could not connect to the internet at all. What was really weird was that my girlfriend's macbook (lion, with wifi), was able to get to the internet fine. Airport kept self assigning an IP on my macbook and the PS3 was not able to connect. On my girlfriend's macbook, I went back to the router and shut off the WEP. And now everything works...what a mess. Why was the one macbook able to work and not mine? I would think it might be a wrong password or something on my part, but the PS3 wasn't working either. Any thoughts? 74.69.117.101 ( talk) 17:32, 27 June 2012 (UTC)