Macbook Air & HTC Desire Hotspot

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My first post.........and its a call for help!!

Just got a new MBA and everything was going well, until I tried to use the wifi hotspot on my HTC Desire and it will not connect no matter what I do with the security settings.

Is it true that you cannot connect this way with Mac OS? Never had a problem with my old netbook on XP.

I'm a bit confused as I've seen some references to Mac OS not allowing this, but then some people have managed to connect with the Nexus S???
 

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You must create a wifi network on the HTC first - link.

If you are choosing WEP encryption, your Mac will probably not work with it.
 
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You must create a wifi network on the HTC first - link.

If you are choosing WEP encryption, your Mac will probably not work with it.
Yep - I've no problem setting up the wifi network on the HTC. I've used it for quite some time with my netbook, so quite OK on how to use it.

I've tried WEP, WPA and WPA2 (and no) security, all with no joy.
 

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And what? You're not giving anyone much to go on. Does it see the network, doesn't connect to the network, get an error and what is it?
 
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All sorted. For future reference of anybody with a similar problem. I found that you had to manually select the channel rather than leave it on Auto on the HTC Desire.

Now its a very nice mobile setup twinned with the MBA.
 

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