Classic New WiFi Nook Can't Connect to Airport

mvitulli · 10-17-2010, 12:47 PM

I bought a WiFi Nook last week and registered it and purchased my first book in the B&N store. No problems yet. I have been trying to connect to our home wireless network, which is run by an old Airport base station that is WEP protected. The Nook recognized the network as having an excellent signal. But it won't accept my password, which is a 5 character ASCII password. I know the password is correct. In my house an iMac, a MacBook Pro, a MacBook, and an old iBook all connect to the internet via the Airport base station.

I am getting pretty frustrated. Didn't see anything on the Boards that I thought would work. Advice please.

gtriever · 10-17-2010, 04:16 PM

Have you tried a reset of the Airport?

geertm · 10-17-2010, 04:32 PM

The Nook does not suport WEP with shared key authentication, only open system authentication (which in spite of the name is actually safer).
So check if your Aiport WEP authentication is set to shared or open. Only open will work with the Nook.

mvitulli · 10-22-2010, 03:14 PM

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post.

We're using a very old Airport base station and from what I can gather it might not be compatible with the Nook with the WEP that we are using. I am not the Airport administrator and we can't risk having our router go down right now. My solution was to return the WiFi Nook and buy at WiFi + 3G Nook. So I circumvented the problem. When we upgrade the Airport Base Station I'll probably be able to use the WiFi connection from home.

briangockley · 10-25-2010, 03:25 PM

In my case, it was not that it doesn't work with WEP, it was that it auto-misidentified the network as WPA2, and then failed to connect. Once I went to the bottom of the list and chose "Install Manually" and then went through selecting WEP, all was well. Is that helpful?

mvitulli · 10-29-2010, 06:49 PM

and still had problems. I tried to let Nook automatically configure the password type and also manually entered the type (ASCII). Nothing worked.

10-17-2010, 12:47 PM	#1
mvitulli Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: nook	New WiFi Nook Can't Connect to Airport I bought a WiFi Nook last week and registered it and purchased my first book in the B&N store. No problems yet. I have been trying to connect to our home wireless network, which is run by an old Airport base station that is WEP protected. The Nook recognized the network as having an excellent signal. But it won't accept my password, which is a 5 character ASCII password. I know the password is correct. In my house an iMac, a MacBook Pro, a MacBook, and an old iBook all connect to the internet via the Airport base station. I am getting pretty frustrated. Didn't see anything on the Boards that I thought would work. Advice please.

10-22-2010, 03:14 PM	#4
mvitulli Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: nook	Thanks for the feedback Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. We're using a very old Airport base station and from what I can gather it might not be compatible with the Nook with the WEP that we are using. I am not the Airport administrator and we can't risk having our router go down right now. My solution was to return the WiFi Nook and buy at WiFi + 3G Nook. So I circumvented the problem. When we upgrade the Airport Base Station I'll probably be able to use the WiFi connection from home.

10-25-2010, 03:25 PM	#5
briangockley Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Palm Pre	Same Airport problem, but working now In my case, it was not that it doesn't work with WEP, it was that it auto-misidentified the network as WPA2, and then failed to connect. Once I went to the bottom of the list and chose "Install Manually" and then went through selecting WEP, all was well. Is that helpful?

10-29-2010, 06:49 PM	#6
mvitulli Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: nook	I manually chose WEP and still had problems. I tried to let Nook automatically configure the password type and also manually entered the type (ASCII). Nothing worked.

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10-17-2010, 04:16 PM	#2
gtriever Addict Posts: 282 Karma: 2125576 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kobo Forma	Have you tried a reset of the Airport?

10-17-2010, 04:32 PM	#3
geertm Guru Posts: 822 Karma: 2000000 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: The Netherlands Device: Kobo Aura One	The Nook does not suport WEP with shared key authentication, only open system authentication (which in spite of the name is actually safer). So check if your Aiport WEP authentication is set to shared or open. Only open will work with the Nook.

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