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kiwidude is offline kiwidude
2005-11-09 , 23:56
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Originally Posted by Weavus
Try the Connectivity app in the control panel. That has an idle timeout tab. I cannot remember what the defaults are though.

I set my idle timeout for WLAN as Unlimited but remember that the battery will be drained faster as WLAN is expensive on the battery.
I found the timeout tab - the default is 60 minutes which I haven't changed so that can't be the problem. Thanks for telling me where it is though!

Originally Posted by Mythic
Add to 5) minus is a design choice, you have got dot in the main keyboard area, but minus is not anywyhere on the main keyboard

Add to the crashes and restarts... havnt had a single issue witht he device so far. What is your firmware version?
Control Panel -> Device -> About product
The firmware version is 1.2005.42-9.

As for the minus sign - I take your point about it not being on the "main" keyboard and it being a design choice, however imho it its a BAD design choice to put it next to 0. There is only a couple of pixels difference between a minus and a period which on a small screen is barely noticeable. To compound that look at a conventional keyboard numeric keypad and look at what key is next to zero... hence my natural instinct to utilise it several times and then having to delete afterwards.


Originally Posted by Samuel
A 128 bits WEP key is composed of a 24 bits initialisation vector and a 104 bits shared key. The latter is actually the key shared between the AP and the device. Since 104 bits = 13*8, it _must_ be 13 ASCII characters long, or 26 HEX digits. Even though your AP allows you to enter longer keys, it probably uses only the first 13 characters.
Fine - although I question whether someone somewhere is getting confused between the ascii keyphrase and the 26-character hex key generated. My router allows me to type a keyword phrase of less than 13 characters, and still considers that sufficient for WEP encryption to generate a HEX sequence. Likewise so did my laptop and PDA for connecting to that router. None of them required me to type in an exact 13 characters - only the 770 did. That same "keyphrase" is what I type in to the 770 - I thought the hex representation is just some encypted equivalent that is not directly related to the length of your keyphrase. If I'm talking rubbish I'm sure someone will correct me!

It's certainly not "the end of the world" using a 13 character password, I was merely observing that I had to make that change elsewhere just to please the 770.