About a week ago, my Terminal application in Leopard suddenly started acting funny.

I was trying to connect to my server back home to do some regular maintenance, and instead of the expected password-prompt, I was getting an error message I’ve never seen before. Also never on a UNIX box.

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I’ve just read on Fon’s community-sites that people with Mac computers (like myself), are having difficulties connecting to their Fon router’s private network.

This problem is easily solved, by accessing the administration-panel of the Fon router and simply changing the encryption type from WPA1/2-Mixed-Mode (which OS X does not support), to a clean WPA1 or WPA2 version.

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