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I have a wireless network set-up at my home since I work remote for my
company. Sadly my work laptop died and I now have a new one but I cant get it
to connect to my home wireless because I have forgotten the network security
key password. Is there anything I can do or where can I look on my desktop
computer (where the wireless network was set-up) to retrieve the forgotten
password to get the laptop onto the wireless network.
"boundwings" <boundwings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5695D146-3B30-48FC-9DCB-632B41EAF09A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have a wireless network set-up at my home since I work remote for my
> company. Sadly my work laptop died and I now have a new one but I cant get
> it
> to connect to my home wireless because I have forgotten the network
> security
> key password. Is there anything I can do or where can I look on my desktop
> computer (where the wireless network was set-up) to retrieve the forgotten
> password to get the laptop onto the wireless network.[/color]
Some routers allow you to display the wireless encryption key in plain text.
Look at the router admin pages and see if that is the case.
If you can't then I suggest creating a new key and saving it off to a USB
flash drive. For help doing that using Windows Connect Now (WCN) in either
Vista or XP see these pages...
[url]http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2007/01/04/vista_5F00_networking_5F00_goodies_5F00_part1.aspx[/url]
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0406.mspx[/url]
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0604.mspx[/url]
If your wireless access point/router or clients do not support WCN you can
easily copy-n-paste the network key by opening the flash drive and
navigating to the "\Smrtntky\Wsetting.txt" file and copying the key to the
wireless access point/router or client.
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Thank you for your help. I got the wirless network onto my work laptop, but
when I connect it says limits or no connectivity even though it shows all 5
bars and when i click on it it says the network did not assign a network
address to the computer. So now I guess I need to know how to assign a
network address and then I should be good
"Sooner Al [MVP]" wrote:
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> "boundwings" <boundwings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5695D146-3B30-48FC-9DCB-632B41EAF09A@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >I have a wireless network set-up at my home since I work remote for my
> > company. Sadly my work laptop died and I now have a new one but I cant get
> > it
> > to connect to my home wireless because I have forgotten the network
> > security
> > key password. Is there anything I can do or where can I look on my desktop
> > computer (where the wireless network was set-up) to retrieve the forgotten
> > password to get the laptop onto the wireless network.[/color]
>
> Some routers allow you to display the wireless encryption key in plain text.
> Look at the router admin pages and see if that is the case.
>
> If you can't then I suggest creating a new key and saving it off to a USB
> flash drive. For help doing that using Windows Connect Now (WCN) in either
> Vista or XP see these pages...
>
> [url]http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2007/01/04/vista_5F00_networking_5F00_goodies_5F00_part1.aspx[/url]
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0406.mspx[/url]
>
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0604.mspx[/url]
>
> If your wireless access point/router or clients do not support WCN you can
> easily copy-n-paste the network key by opening the flash drive and
> navigating to the "\Smrtntky\Wsetting.txt" file and copying the key to the
> wireless access point/router or client.
>
> --
>
> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>
> Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the
> mutual benefit of all of us...
> The MS-MVP Program - [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com[/url]
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights...
>
>[/color]
Hi
Disable the security on both the Router and the computer, make sure that it
is working OK and then issue a New security setting.
My Wireless does not work - [url]http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html[/url]
Wireless Basic Configuration - [url]http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html[/url]
Wireless Security - [url]http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html[/url]
Jack (MVP-Networking).
"boundwings" <boundwings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5695D146-3B30-48FC-9DCB-632B41EAF09A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have a wireless network set-up at my home since I work remote for my
> company. Sadly my work laptop died and I now have a new one but I cant get
> it
> to connect to my home wireless because I have forgotten the network
> security
> key password. Is there anything I can do or where can I look on my desktop
> computer (where the wireless network was set-up) to retrieve the forgotten
> password to get the laptop onto the wireless network.[/color]
Did you actually find your previous password using the router's
configuration utility as suggested by Sooner Al? It sounds like you
didn't. The symptoms you describe typically result from a misconfigured
security setting.
boundwings wrote:[color=blue]
> Thank you for your help. I got the wirless network onto my work laptop, but
> when I connect it says limits or no connectivity even though it shows all 5
> bars and when i click on it it says the network did not assign a network
> address to the computer. So now I guess I need to know how to assign a
> network address and then I should be good
>
> "Sooner Al [MVP]" wrote:
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>> "boundwings" <boundwings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5695D146-3B30-48FC-9DCB-632B41EAF09A@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>>> I have a wireless network set-up at my home since I work remote for my
>>> company. Sadly my work laptop died and I now have a new one but I cant get
>>> it
>>> to connect to my home wireless because I have forgotten the network
>>> security
>>> key password. Is there anything I can do or where can I look on my desktop
>>> computer (where the wireless network was set-up) to retrieve the forgotten
>>> password to get the laptop onto the wireless network.[/color]
>> Some routers allow you to display the wireless encryption key in plain text.
>> Look at the router admin pages and see if that is the case.
>>
>> If you can't then I suggest creating a new key and saving it off to a USB
>> flash drive. For help doing that using Windows Connect Now (WCN) in either
>> Vista or XP see these pages...
>>
>> [url]http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2007/01/04/vista_5F00_networking_5F00_goodies_5F00_part1.aspx[/url]
>> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0406.mspx[/url]
>>
>> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0604.mspx[/url]
>>
>> If your wireless access point/router or clients do not support WCN you can
>> easily copy-n-paste the network key by opening the flash drive and
>> navigating to the "\Smrtntky\Wsetting.txt" file and copying the key to the
>> wireless access point/router or client.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>>
>> Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the
>> mutual benefit of all of us...
>> The MS-MVP Program - [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com[/url]
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights...
>>
>>[/color][/color]
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