Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Why can't the wireless key be found from some other laptop that's
using the network. If this is a school, and you are a teacher (I'm
talking about Antonio here), then another teacher must have configured
the wireless key on their laptop, no? If not, then maybe the woreless
isn;t for the teachers?
The only way this won't work is if the router is also doing MAC
filtering in addition to the wireless key. (Even then, there are ways
around that too, but beyond what I said above, we're talking about
hacking, which some in the administration may frown upon....)
Well, finding the wireless key on a Windows laptop can be interesting. I
am guessing you would have to dig into the registry to find it. I know
it is hidden when you look at the wireless settings. (Like when you
enter a password.) I have not dug into the registry to see if it is
encoded there.
Well, my experience is that I've help to configure 2 different laptops
under windows xp, and in both cases, the wireless key was available from
the configuration tool in plain text. YMMV.
Now, if the administrator did things right, there should be a network
setup USB key or disk with all the network settings needed to connect to
the wireless network. It is set up so that all you need to do is put it
in and auto-run it - it sets things up without the user having to know
the details or the key. It makes setting up a new computer to connect to
the wireless network a snap.
That used to be called a network configuration floppy. B^) Yeah, I
remember when ms first introduced that feature. How to configure other
machines on your network to use your windows gateway without knowing the
details of the network.
Mikkel
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