i just bought my nokia n800 and got it home. i have tried to connect it to my lan but am having difficulties.

i have a genuine microsoft mn-700 router which i purchased a few years back for next to nothing when it was being discontinued. it has worked pretty well, all things considered and i have connected several different computers to it in the past...windows xp and previous versions of windows.

connecting my new nokia internet tablet has become, however, a challenge. i have been using a wep 40 bit key for my hidden wireless network, which key (index 1) i entered in hex, since that is the only option on the router. this was pretty cool with windows xp, which also allows entering wep keys in hex. this device, however, does not seem to allow that and so i grumbled a bit and got out a handy hex-ascii conversion table and entered a key on my router which contained all valid ascii characters which might be entered from a keyboard. once i got the router back up, and got the wep key changed on my computers and got everything all connected, i tried to connect my
n800...no luck. i'm pretty sure that it is a wep key issue as the device recognizes the network, and it tries to connect to it.

anyone have any suggestions?

thanks

Have you tried without using WEP? Just to make sure it can connect and surf first...

And make sure you try a single digit channel number. Eg. Channel 6 . This is just so that you don't use something like Channel 13 or something that may be out of range of some devices.

ok, after fiddling around (and changing the ssid on the router to "5") (thanks and everything, but don't get the big head now), that turned out to be the problem, I think, because I typed in the wep key in hex afterwards and the N800 connected, according to it. I couldn't get any web page, and I looked at the connection at work and at another public site and they all said the same thing, the n800 is connected to the internet (with the message, "connected to wirelessnetwork with link-local ip address"). the connection is made and then and then...there is a "network problem" with the site (who wrote these error messages for these guys, Loviatar?) and bytes being sent, but zero, nada, none received. This looks like some kind of weird dhcp problem, but the other problem looked like something with the wep key to me, so I cannot be considered a reliable witness, I don't suppose.

Anyway, I am going to continue to soldier on, and would appreciate any help anyone can give or comments they might have.

Thanks again for your astute observation.

Regards,