security key??? help me with this!

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CODE3RUN
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security key??? help me with this!

Im trying to hook up my dell wireless printer to my network and during set up, its asking for security key...Please in simple form, how do I find this? I have a netgear router....

achilles
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The printer is asking for

The printer is asking for security key bcoz you might be using WEP/WPA security mechanism .
Have you configured your Netgear router to use any security mechanism ???
If yes then if you are using WEP you need to specify the security key which you have given while configuring Netgear AP ...
Similarily for WPA you need to specify the passphrase which you given to the AP ..
Please make sure that you are using same security mechanism and same security parameters for both netgear router and your wireless printer ...

If you dont want to use any security you can disable the security for both AP and printer ....