I am having the same problem as ispumoni, albeit with slightly different hardware (my wireless base station/router is the MN-700, my HP Visualize P-Class running XP Pro 2002 SP1 is wire connected to the router via ethernet and accesses the interent fine; my PowerBook G4 equipped with an AirPort card is running Mac OS X 10.2 (6C115) ). Before and after I bought the MN-700, I was assured that the AirPort card is compatible with all non-Apple 802.11g-standard routers, and that set-up should be (or be close to) "plug-n-play".
On the Mac, I first opened the Network control panel and under "Show", selected AirPort, then clicked apply now. When this did not work (Explorer couldn't find anything on the i-net), I checked the help and found reference to the AirPort Setup Assistant, which I ran. The first window which comes up asks if you want to join an existing network or setup a base station - since my base station was already functional I chose the former. The next window - which automatically and correctly referenced the name of my network - requests the "Network Password" - it is this window/password which I suspect ispumoni is refering to, based on our common symptomology. I enter in the only password I would have used (which, incidentally, does work to allow me to use the MS-supplied Base Station Management Tool on the XP machine, so unless that password is not the required "Network Password", the password I'm entering in on the G4 is correct) and get a "Conclusion" window saying that "The Setup Assistant is now ready to configure your computer to access the network <network name>. AirPort network settings will be made active." Upon clicking on the "continue" button, I get a "The password you entered was incorrect. Please try again" window. Thus, superficially at least, it is the AirPort Setup Assistant which is saying that the password is incorrect, but it is also detecting the network in some capacity in that it is correctly identifying it by name (even though I at no point supplied that name to the G4 or any of its software).
Fixes I have tried: on the G4 side I have tried selecting the "base station setup" option instead of the "join an existing network option", and on the XP side I have used the Base Station Management Tool to try different wireless channel numbers, including having combined these fix strategies - all have produced the same result, i.e., AirPort Setup Assistant request of a network password which was promptly rejected. Hopefully this is a sufficiently detailed answer to your question(s) of ispumoni for you to be able to assist us. Thanks!
DG
----- Rob Schneider wrote: -----
hello,
wireless network at home. the base computer is an IBM
running windows xp, and network and internet access are
just fine on the pc. we're using the microsoft wireless
desktop kit for broadband networking, MN-610. my
powerbook has an airport wireless card and can detect the
wireless network---but when i try to log on, there is no
signal and i get a message saying the password is
incorrect. i know the password i entered is not
incorrect, and i don't think it was incoded as hex or
ASCII. is there anything i need to do on the microsoft
broadband utility? or on my mac? thanks very much for
any help you can give me.
Where is the password prompt coming from? The wireless unit? or when
you try to attach to an XP share?
How can there be no signal at same time as having a password prompt?
Probably best to re-ask this in the XP Networking or Mac Networking NG.
I'm unfamiliar with any forum NG that supports both; maybe find some
articles via Google.
