Re: 54g Wireless - Mac Os 10 and Mac Os X

["Blue Wezza" <blue-wezza@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Thanks for your time

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> In article <3bdh26F6gl5tnU1@individual.net>, Blue Wezza
> <blue-wezza@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have two apple laptops coming into our work network - one is an oldish
>> IBook with an original Airport card which supports 64bit WEP and the 
>> other
>> is a brand new IBook with 128bit WEP security. Our wireless network 
>> router
>> is a belkin but only allows us to set 64 bit OR 128 bit - is there anyway 
>> of
>> allowing either of these computers onto the network whilst securing it?
>
> sure - update the firmware on the airport card and you'll get 128 bit
> wep.  if you are running mac os x 10.3 (panther) you will even get wpa
> too.
>
> run software update and select all of the airport related items.  you
> may want to update the other stuff too.  note that you may need to run
> the updater a few times, as some updates require earlier updates.
>
> it is also wise to run disk utility before updating to be sure there
> are no major disk problems which can potentially affect system software
> changes (and anything else for that matter).
>