Connecting iPhone to Ad-hoc wireless network?

z0mbi3 · 21 Jan 2009 at 20:32

Apologies if this doesn't make much sense but it's a rushed post so please try to bare with me!

Situation is I have a adsl router without wireless wired to a pc that has wireless. I've tried setting up an adhoc connection so that my iPhone can connect to the internet via the pc's wireless, but when I actually try to connect it asks me for a username and password.

I've not setup or seen anywhere to setup a username and password. I've configured a WPA key but it doesn't accept this. Even if I leave the network completley open with no encrpytion it still asks me for a username and password when I try and connect from the iPhone.

This is all on XP btw.

Any ideas?

mdjmcnally · 22 Jan 2009 at 11:28

Does the wireless on your PC act as an access point, or as I suspect it is just thinking that the iPhone is trying to connect to the XP Machine and so asks for a username and password.

z0mbi3 · 22 Jan 2009 at 11:59

Well I've set it up as per all the guides I can find for setting it up as an ad hoc wireless network. So as far as I can see I've got it setup correctly.

z0mbi3 · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:16

bump for ideas

mdjmcnally · 23 Jan 2009 at 17:28

Is Internet Connection Sharing configured ?

z0mbi3 · 23 Jan 2009 at 21:23

Yes but even if it wasn't would that cause it to ask for a username and password?

Will_3rd · 24 Jan 2009 at 15:18

I've tried in the past, it doesn't work.

z0mbi3 · 25 Jan 2009 at 10:33

Will_3rd said:
I've tried in the past, it doesn't work.

It does work, but only on WEP shared I've discovered. WPA tkip on adhoc throws a wobbly ands asks me for the username and password as described above.

Will_3rd · 25 Jan 2009 at 12:17

So it works with WEP strange :confused:

z0mbi3 · 25 Jan 2009 at 13:11

Will_3rd said:
So it works with WEP strange

Yeah. From what I've read it's like the WPA it's doing on ad-hoc has something to do with enterprise that the iPhone doesn't support?

I don't get it really but all I know is that when I set it to WEP-shared it asks me for the wep key, but WPA asks me for a username and password.