I recently changed providers and started DSL. I have a modem with built-in wireless capabilities. Set it up for my desktop (wired) and all worked well. My son has an iBook G4 running 10.4.11 - same as my desktop. It has an Airport card in it so we figured he should be able to connect to the modem wirelessly. Set it up and it worked well for one day. Following day it would not connect.
I set up the wireless connection with WPA-PSK selected (turned on) and channel 9 selected. Made sure the iBook was set the same. When prompted for the password we get an error message stating there is an "error" connecting to the modem. Using the set up assistant for the Airport card yielded no change. We tried turning off the modem - an Actiontec GT724WGR - waiting 60 seconds and turning back on - no change. Tried restarting the iBook - no change.
Today we turned off the WPA-PSK and he can connect with no problem. I'm not entirely comfortable with WPA shut off. I read somewhere else that implied the password needs to be a certain length to work for some settings - notably WEP. I used an 8 character password for the PSK.
Can anyone offer any help on this? I'd rather have WPA turned on if possible. The fact that it worked initially and now does not with WPA turned on seems to indicate we did something that changed the whole thing.
Thanks in advance for any help offered.
I set up the wireless connection with WPA-PSK selected (turned on) and channel 9 selected. Made sure the iBook was set the same. When prompted for the password we get an error message stating there is an "error" connecting to the modem. Using the set up assistant for the Airport card yielded no change. We tried turning off the modem - an Actiontec GT724WGR - waiting 60 seconds and turning back on - no change. Tried restarting the iBook - no change.
Today we turned off the WPA-PSK and he can connect with no problem. I'm not entirely comfortable with WPA shut off. I read somewhere else that implied the password needs to be a certain length to work for some settings - notably WEP. I used an 8 character password for the PSK.
Can anyone offer any help on this? I'd rather have WPA turned on if possible. The fact that it worked initially and now does not with WPA turned on seems to indicate we did something that changed the whole thing.
Thanks in advance for any help offered.