Jay Kline said: > Are you sure its just standard wep? yes, standard wep. there is no VPNing going on. > If its a wep key, the properties box should > have the ******** line where the key is, right? (I dont know this for > sure) If it does, there are tools available to retrieve passwords > stored like that. I have tried one such viewer but it would not show the contents of that particular field > > Have you tried telling them you are installing for windows xp pro? I would have to bring it in to the laptop support center and *they* would install the key > > If its not just wep, this method will fail. Even if it is just wep, it > will likely fail anyway. Yes, the algorithm is not strong, but that does > not mean its weak. (Most home users will never generate enough packets > to really worry about it) > yeah, I have given up on this front. > The key does get stored into the card at some point, but it must first > be stored on the filesystem somewhere to load onto the card (the card > will not maintain state after powerloss) hmmm, well I will continue on in my search. thanks for the reply LB _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list