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Getting Started Guide for Cisco Digital Media Players
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Connect Equipment
Workflow
It is not necessary, useful, or correct to restart a DMP immediately after you define its 802.11 settings.
Instead, the typical workflow is as follows.
Understand WEP Keys and Passphrases
Timesaver Does your wireless network use WPA instead of WEP? If so, you can ignore this topic.
Many 802.11 access points (wireless routers) accept only a hexadecimal passphrase for WEP-64 and
WEP-128. And yet, DMPs accept only an ASCII passphrase for WEP. For this reason, it might be
necessary at times to translate your WEP passphrase from ASCII to hexadecimal. Many third-party
converters are available. We do not offer any Cisco converter for this purpose.
The typical WEP process is as follows.
1. Pick an ASCII passphrase. For example, PassphraseWEP128.
2. Convert your string of ASCII characters to the hexadecimal key or keys for your network.
• WEP-64 uses four short hexadecimal keys.
• WEP-128 uses one long hexadecimal key.
3. Configure your DMP to use the ASCII from which you derived the hexadecimal.
4. Configure your wireless router to use the appropriate hexadecimal key or keys.
Related Topics
• Wireless (802.11 b/g) Connection Procedures, page 22
1. Define
wireless
settings.
2. Save
wireless
settings.
3. Apply wireless settings.
a. Use DMPDM to restart the DMP.
b. Immediately unplug the
DMP Ethernet cable.
OR
a. Unplug the DMP power cord.
b. Unplug the DMP Ethernet cable.
c. Plug in the DMP power cord.
4. Get WLAN
IP address.
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