Belkin Wireless G Router WEP password

128-bit encryption may be causing you grief.Do things work for your test machine when you set encryption to 64-bit? (10 chars, a-f 0-9)
(128 is a bit of overkill, unless you need financial-institution-level encryption...64Bit is usually adequate for home and small office wifi)

As for your question about passwording. The encryption key you choose (see above) will likely need to be entered into the wireless utility that your clients will have on their machines.
"Regular word password" will relate to file/folder access that you'll grant your users after you get the wireless working.

Some routers use a 'passphrase' to generate the encryption key. My Belkin has that, yours might (mine looks like the one in your link, and mine isn't G-Plus or anything jazzy) . The catch is that passphrase generation of the encrypt-key is not always foolproof. The exact way that the Belkin's passphrase generates a key...may not be the exact way that some other wireless adapter generates one.

Simplify: 64-bit, enter hex manually, get things working. THEN kick it up a notch to 128-bit.

(128 is a bit of overkill, unless you need financial-institution-level encryption...64Bit is usually adequate for home and small office wifi)

64 bit (referred to by Apple as 40 bit) is essentially useless. If you want your network encrypted you will use 128 bit WEP as a minimum. WPA is HIGHLY recommended.

Ensure that the 'Turbo' mode of that router is disabled. That is not part of the standard and therefore not supported by Apple.

Entering a hexadecimal code into your Mac for the WEP key shouldn't be a problem. In fact I prefer it when working with 3rd party routers.

But if you don't want to use hexadecimal, that router's User's Guide (Pg 50) states:

You can enter your key by typing in the hex key manually, or you can type in a passphrase in the “Passphrase” field and click “Generate” to create a key.

Are you talking about this note:

Note to Mac users: Original Apple AirPort® products support 64-bit encryption only. Apple AirPort 2 products can support 64-bit or 128-bit encryption. Please check your product to see which version you are using. If you cannot configure your network with 128-bit encryption, try 64-bit encryption.

That note is misleading (what is an "Apple AirPort 2 product") and does not apply anymore. It only apply to the original AirPort card but was quickly remedied by Apple in a AirPort software update.

The text password should work but the only way you will know is to try it.

Glad that I could help!

I have a new Belkin G wireless router F5D7231-4 and cannot get it to work wirelessly with my Titanium 15 inch Powerbook G4. Here's the situation.

1. My Powerbook G4 and Airport (not Express or Extreme) card work just fine wirelessly outside of my home, at Starbuck's, libraries, etc.
2. The WIRED internet connection to my desktop PC works fine with the Belkin router.
3. The WIRED internet connection to my Powerbook G4 works fine with the Belkin router
4. When I cursor to the wireless icon on my Powerbook, the menu displays the name of the Belkin network.
5. HOWEVER, when I enter a password (which Belkin helped me set up - see 6 below) into the Enter Password menu when it is pulled down, I get a "there was an error joining the selected Airport network" error message. [Note this is the same problem I had with the Linksys router I bought first but also could not get to work wirelessly.]
6. I worked with Belkin support and they had me go to their Web based setting page to Wireless > Security and had me set up 64bit WEP encryption and enter 10 characters in the line Key 1. I entered these same characters into the password section once the menu was pulled down after cursoring to the wireless icon & choosing the appropriate network name. They told me to enter the 10 characters with no commas, periods, or spaces. But when I entered this password, I got the error message. At this point Belkin told me it's a configuration issue with the Mac and that I need to contact Apple.

I really would like to work wirelessly at home. Please help!

I have a new Belkin G wireless router F5D7231-4 and cannot get it to work wirelessly with my Titanium 15 inch Powerbook G4. Here's the situation.

1. My Powerbook G4 and Airport (not Express or Extreme) card work just fine wirelessly outside of my home, at Starbuck's, libraries, etc.
2. The WIRED internet connection to my desktop PC works fine with the Belkin router.
3. The WIRED internet connection to my Powerbook G4 works fine with the Belkin router
4. When I cursor to the wireless icon on my Powerbook, the menu displays the name of the Belkin network.
5. HOWEVER, when I enter a password (which Belkin helped me set up - see 6 below) into the Enter Password menu when it is pulled down, I get a "there was an error joining the selected Airport network" error message. [Note this is the same problem I had with the Linksys router I bought first but also could not get to work wirelessly.]
6. I worked with Belkin support and they had me go to their Web based setting page to Wireless > Security and had me set up 64bit WEP encryption and enter 10 characters in the line Key 1. I entered these same characters into the password section once the menu was pulled down after cursoring to the wireless icon & choosing the appropriate network name. They told me to enter the 10 characters with no commas, periods, or spaces. But when I entered this password, I got the error message. At this point Belkin told me it's a configuration issue with the Mac and that I need to contact Apple.

I really would like to work wirelessly at home. Please help!

Did you note Duane's recommenation to disable the "turbo" (or whatever speed-booster belkin calls it)?
Then try.
You may also need to "Repair Keychain", or even look into Keychain for any passwords associated with this Belkin...It's possible that a connection has been made, using incorrect WPA/WEP information (encryption), and you need to remove that possibly incorrect password.
(Look into "Help" 'keychain').

It may very well be simply the "super-duper G-Plus" technology.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant%20Id=&Product_Id=179 477

Rick

See KB 106250, Mac OS X, AirPort: Connecting to Third-Party Base Stations.