Hi
It seems that your card drivers are Not allowing passphrase.
Try to log to the Card's manufacturer support site and see if there is
updated Drivers.
Otherwise, consider buying a new Card.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"pablowerk" wrote in message
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> Hello, I have tried to find a solution but have come up empty handed. I am
> running xp pro sp2 and from what I can tell is that you need to know the
> hex
> key 1 in order to access any WEP security wireless network.
>
> My problem is that many coffee shops I go to, only hand out the passphrase
> rather than the key. How can I get around this problem?

"pablowerk" wrote:
> Hello, I have tried to find a solution but have come up empty handed. I am
> running xp pro sp2 and from what I can tell is that you need to know the hex
> key 1 in order to access any WEP security wireless network.
>
> My problem is that many coffee shops I go to, only hand out the passphrase
> rather than the key. How can I get around this problem?

This depends also on your wireless utility.
The built-in Windows one (WZC) lets you to enter the key in two
formats: as hex or text. In latter case, length of the text string must be
either 5 or 13 characters.

--PA