Just obtained a new Samsung laptop with Vista Home Premium. On wireless
network I have MAC address filtering and WEP (yes, I know WPA is
better), with three XP and one Vista computers already connecting.

Two problems - firstly, when I use IPCONFIG/ALL in command prompt, the
physical addresses of the network devices are all zeros - how do I get a
proper address for the wireless card?

Secondly, the new Laptop sees the network, then asks for the WEP key; I
enter that, and am told "Window cannot connect to network" as it
received no response from the router. (Obviously this is with the MAC
filtering off). Any thoughts?


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Denis8991
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Some computers may have a problem to access a wireless with MAC address
filtering and WEP enabled. Just try WEP or MAC address filtering only first.

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Just obtained a new Samsung laptop with Vista Home Premium. On wireless
network I have MAC address filtering and WEP (yes, I know WPA is
better), with three XP and one Vista computers already connecting.

Two problems - firstly, when I use IPCONFIG/ALL in command prompt, the
physical addresses of the network devices are all zeros - how do I get a
proper address for the wireless card?

Secondly, the new Laptop sees the network, then asks for the WEP key; I
enter that, and am told "Window cannot connect to network" as it
received no response from the router. (Obviously this is with the MAC
filtering off). Any thoughts?


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Denis8991
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Bob

Thanks for your quick response. I can connect with no security
settings, however, one of the problems is that I cannot get a valid MAC
address - it shows as 00-00-00-00-E0 for both network devices.


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Denis8991
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