My Music Video

[bloodline]

A4000_Mad wrote:
@ bloodline

Damn! I can't even watch it on my slow dial-up connection. Could you post it as a file on CD-R? (If so, we'll call it quits on that fiver you owe me :-D)

Once I get the HD-DVD master... I'll see what I can do.

@
the_leander

NICE! Very artistic 8-)

I know, quite how he did that I don't know!!! Brilliant :-D

[X-ray]

Ya'll done good.
It reminds me of the song "The friends of Mr Cairo" by Jon Anderson and Vangelis.
Of course Bloodline looks much more menacing than those dudes, but you need some pistols to complete the picture.

[A4000_Mad]

@ bloodline

We've just got Broadband and I've enjoyed watching your video on the wifes new netbook using WiFi  8-)


My own laptop can only work with something called WEP. Anyone know if it can be made to use something called WAN? :crazy:

[motorollin]

A4000_Mad wrote:
My own laptop can only work with something called WEP. Anyone know if it can be made to use something called WAN? :crazy:

WEP and WAN are components of totally different technologies.

WAN = Wide Area Network (i.e. the Internet)
WEP = Wired Equivalent Protocol (security for wireless networks)

So you use WEP to authenticate your computer to access your wireless router, and the router then connects to the WAN (your ISP).

--
moto

[odin]

He probably meant WPA, which, AFAIK, the PCMCIA network cards compatible with the A1200 and A600 can't do. WEP is very easy to crack and should never be used unless you don't give a toss about privacy.

[A4000_Mad]

Thanks for that explaination moto :-)

Odin is correct as I should have said WPA. My old laptop will only use WEP as it asked a for 40 character password which was much longer than the password we were given by Sky. I rang Sky and the guy said we should just change the wifes netbook to WEP as well. But this didn't work for her new netbook, so he suggest I try to upgrade my laptop to make it WPA capable.

So I'm wanting to get my laptop to be able to use WPA if possible?

EDIT

laptop info:-

It's almost 5 years old.
Made by Time Computers.
Mobile AMD Athlon 2600+
XP Home Edition with Service Pack 1


Would upgrading to XP Pro give it WPA capability? Or is there some other software which I could download that might do the trick?



 

[odin]

Unless you give some more details about what kind of WLAN hardware the laptop uses (built-in, PCMCIA card, USB thing etc) the only thing I could suggest is getting a new PCMCIA WLAN card, such as this one.

[A4000_Mad]

Thanks odin

Hopefully this screenshot will help to explain the problem:-



Btw... I've just connected the laptop to the router using the yellow ethernet lead and surfed the Internet with Broadband no problem at all.

I believe the hardware that the laptop is trying to use to connect the Broadband signal wirelessly is the 'IEEE802.11b MiniPCI Wireless Network Adapter' shown under Network adapters in Device Manager above.

Our Sky network is found ok by the laptops WiFi, but only WEP is mentioned in the screenshot above. When I enter our correct 8 character password, I get the annoying report at the top of the screenshot.

Any thoughts please?



@ bloodline

This is on topic because the first thing I'm gonna do if it gets sorted is to watch your video again using my own laptop ;-)

[motorollin]

"IEEE802.11b MiniPCI Wireless Network Adapter" doesn't give much info on what the card actually is. Sounds like it's using a generic driver. If you could find out what the actual card is (maybe in the spec of the laptop) then you might be able to install a specific driver which may enable WPA if the card supports it.

[A4000_Mad]

thanks moto

I've just bought a LINKSYS Wireless-G USB Network Adapter. I tried it on my PC tower and connected fine using WPA. I put it on the laptop and got that same annoying report about the password needing to be 40 characters long.

Me now thinks it could possibly be the old XP Home Edition version 2002 on the laptop?

[motorollin]

Sometimes the wireless card comes with its own management software which takes over (and disables) Windows's management of the connection. Perhaps it is this which doesn't support WPA? Check for that and disable it if there is any, then try again with the new card. Failing that, check whether you have the latest Service Packs and whether it's the same version of XP (Home vs. Pro). Then throw that machine away and get a MacBook :-P

[A4000_Mad]

Thanks moto

What's a MacBook? :-P

Is it one of things I saw in PC world with no right mouse button? After using ToolsDaemon for years on the Amiga, I don't think I could cope without the right mousey  :-D

[bloodline]

MacBooks don't have any mouse buttons any more. :-o

My new MBP arrives next week :-)

[motorollin]

A4000_Mad wrote:
Thanks moto

What's a MacBook? :-P

Is it one of things I saw in PC world with no right mouse button?

Close. it's one of those things you saw in PC World that is so well designed that it doesn't *need* a right mouse button :-P

A4000_Mad wrote:
After using ToolsDaemon for years on the Amiga, I don't think I could cope without the right mousey  :-D

I thought the same. But I adjusted. And actually, the OS supports a right mouse button on USB or Bluetooth mice if you absolutely must use one. Also, if you hold down two fingers on the trackpad then click the mouse button, it will carry out the function of the right mouse button.

[motorollin]

bloodline wrote:
MacBooks don't have any mouse buttons any more. :-o

Oh yeah! For anyone who doesn't know, the whole trackpad has been turned into the mouse button. And I don't mean that annoying thing where you tap the trackpad for a mouse button, which requires you to do complicated double-taps if you want to drag, and is easy to accidentally click. No, Apple have actually made the whole trackpad in to a physical button which pushes in. It's so nice to sweep over to something, push in on the trackpad, and have that item selected. Keep your finger pushed and keep moving and the object will be dragged. It's seriously sexy!

bloodline wrote:
My new MBP arrives next week :-)

I've been thinking about setting all the free Amiga gear I got recently, selling my MacBook, and seeing if that's enough to get a new MB with my student discount :idea:

[ZeBeeDee]

First off, check the help sections and tutorials here

Or you could just as easily call Sky and ask them to supply you with another USB wireless dongle