password protect wireless for mac

guaranteedBluff · #1 09-01-2007, 12:57 AM

Should be an easy thing to do, but I can't figure it out. I have a linksys wireless router and can connect to it w/o a problem; however, i'd like to encrypt it so that i have to enter a password to use it, with a macbook pro. how do i go about doing this?

thanks in advance!

kerowo · #2 09-01-2007, 01:01 AM

You set it up on the router, not on the MBP. Once you set the WAP or WEP or whatever password on the router the lappy will prompt you for it. This should only happen the first time you connect to it and if you ever change your password.

Beavis68 · #3 09-01-2007, 11:57 AM

there is no need to enter it every time as Kero says. You create a profile for the connection that has the password in it. This may have even been done automatically when you set up the router.

Log onto the router, the address for my linksys is 192.168.1.1

then look at your wireless settings and see if encryption is enabled.