Homervander
Solid State Member
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Hi,
so during lockdown the boredom has gotten so bad that I decided to dig up an old laptop to see if it still worked and whether it was worth keeping and updating the software.
unfortunately I can’t even get it connected to the WI-FI..
It has windows XP installed and when I go to connect to the internet it asks for network key underneath which is says confirm network key.
I duly input the WI-FI password in both boxes. However, an error message then appears saying “the network connection password needs to be 40bits or 104bits depending on your network configuration. This can be entered as 5 or 13 ascil characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters”.
Any thoughts on what this means and is there an easy way to overcome it? Thanks.
so during lockdown the boredom has gotten so bad that I decided to dig up an old laptop to see if it still worked and whether it was worth keeping and updating the software.
unfortunately I can’t even get it connected to the WI-FI..
It has windows XP installed and when I go to connect to the internet it asks for network key underneath which is says confirm network key.
I duly input the WI-FI password in both boxes. However, an error message then appears saying “the network connection password needs to be 40bits or 104bits depending on your network configuration. This can be entered as 5 or 13 ascil characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters”.
Any thoughts on what this means and is there an easy way to overcome it? Thanks.