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Cisco Aironet 1100 Encryption problem

I have a client that has 4 Cisco Aironet 1100 APs installed with about 50 clients.  All clients can connect with no security.  When we try to add WEP encryption, none of the clients can connect.  They can see the access point but can't connect.  Any ideas on how to resolve this?
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What authentication type(s) do you have enabled?  Without WEP it should probably be "open", with WEP it pretty much needs to be "shared".

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We have WEP enabled with Shared authentication. We set 128 bit encryption, and when that didn't work, we tried 40 bit and still nothing.
Pretty muppetty comment, and I apologise in advance.   But have you set up the keys etc on the client PC's ????Been a while since i worked on the Aironet kit, but I seem to remember there was a tick box somewhere that needed unchecking when setting up the WEP stuff........do you get any error messages on the clients when you try to connect ?  Can you see the MAC addresses on the Aironet ??????
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The clients can see the AP; they just can seem to connect.  We have added just 1 key to begin with to test.  The clients say the typical "limited or no connection".  They are recognized by the AP as clients connecting for access. Something I failed to mention before: the client has 5 identical Cisco 1100's that were installed.  All have the same SSID.  The internal IT guy decided to add the security to just 1 of the 5 to test so we wouldn't take everyone of the Internet at once.  Is it possible that just altereing 1 of 5 instead of all 5 at once with the same ID caused conflicts?
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