Hey all, I just enabled wpa-psk on my linksys wireless router and setup a passphrase that is 29 characters long. I have read many pages now that state the same thing the error msg tells me when I enter in the EXACT SAME PHRASE that I entered in on the router itself. the error reads: "must be 5 or 13 ascii characters OR 10 or 26 hex characters." so I created a basic phrase combining alphanumeric characters only, no special chars on the router and went to login from the laptop adapter via wireless, and entered it exactly, yet it WILL NOT ACCEPT THE PASSPHRASE AS CORRECT. what now? Thanks! Chuck p.s. here's the hw in use: DLink DWL-650 PCMCIA card in my laptop, connecting to Linksys wireless router BEFW114S. I am connecting to write this via leeching some other local unsecured wireless network in the neighborhood from my room. please help.

WPA creates either a 10 hex-character encryption key with a random character generator using a 5 ASCII character passphrase as a "key" OR a 26 hex-character encryption key using a 13 ASCII character passphrase. If your passphrase is too short for the type of key selected it pads it with spaces. It's usually safer to generate a hex-character encryption key directly and type that directly into both server and client because the encryption key generator may not be exactly the same on both machines. Safer, but more tedious. Also ensure that both using the same key length and mode - "open", "shared", or "both", I think.