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Set the Linksys router so that WEP settings are mandatory. For my router this was located in: Wireless—>Advanced Wireless Settings—>Authentication Type. I set it to “Shared Key” in order to make the WEP mandatory.

In the Wireless—>Wireless Security section set the appropriate level of WEP security (I chose 128) and create a password. Generate the keys and note the 1st one, which we’ll use to set up the AirPort settings.

Now, back to the OS X settings. Open up an AirPort settings dialog and join the network you’ve created on your router. Choose your network and then enter a ”$” (no quotes) as the first character in the password box. Following the $ sign enter the Hex characters from the 1st key of wireless security settings that were seen in the linksys administration page. (e.g. $D6AE08…)

This was the only way I found to connect to the wifi network.

By default the inconv.dll is not installed when using the gem installation for rails on win32.

It was necessary to therefore retrieve the latest win32 binaries for libiconv from GNU.

Then, I needed to retrieve the source files for Ruby itself.

The iconv.dll from the GNU sources goes in c:\ruby\bin\iconv.dll.

The iconv.so file from the Ruby-win32 sources goes in C:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32

Note that if this doesn’t work, you’ll need to find the correct version of iconv to use in conjunction withe RoR sources.