Hp Pavilion dm1 wireless problem

okay bought this from verizon wireless last week ,built in broadband card and so i turned on internet sharing for my sons ipod and it picked up the wifi signal right away ?
But now this is my problem it wants a wpa/Wpa 2 password and i never seen any where to set one up ,called verizon and they dont know what i am talking about they dont handle this ?
i went threw windows 7 ,control panel ,network & internet ,add a wireless device to the network ,and when the ipod or droid picks up the wifi signal try to connect and it asks for a password for the wpa/wpa2 ?? which i cant find ! any help would be greatly appcreciated !!!
HP Pavilion dm1
320 GB hard drive
Broadcom 4313 802.11 b/g/n
bluetooth
mobile broadband
2GB mem ,updates to 5GB
Windows 7

 

Who setup the Router, and the wireless(WiFi herein) to your HP pavilion in your house?

the iPod is asking for the Security Key to your WiFi network,
even if you are using ICS(internet connection sharing) all wireless devices nowadays should have secured Wireless connection, via Wifi router, to keep hackers out! the latest for last few years are:
WEP(too easy to hack nowadays)
WPA(minimum)
WPA2 (I only use this)

a WPA/WPA2 is a 8 to 63 digit ASCII (numbers letters & symbols)and or HEX (all letters & numbers) for bit strength(how secure the wireless connection is) up to 520bit

Dejavu

 

is no router running,signal is strait off netbook wifi can reach 100 feet !
i understand wep,wpa/wpa2,my problem is there should be only security if i set it up and i did not ,i want to use this in the car for my son on his ipod and the wife for her farmville !
thanks for the reply !

 

i was wondering if this was something windows 7 does on its own !
im guessing here but with all the security it has ,maybe there is a way i can shut this part down somehow security that is ??

 

update ,called verizonwireless tech support and they finally told me that they lock the broadband card ,so this way u have to buy a mifi or a hotspot !
they r really confused if it isnt in the paperwork !
so it turned out they locked broadband card so i cant use built in wifi card to send out signal and they will not give me the password wpa/wpa2 password !!
thanks everyone ,

you can use your hp lappy ,if you have two wifi cards or lan plugged in to send out a wifi signal do it all the time ,sharing ,sharing is so much fun!!!!
but not at verizon wireless ,money money makes the world go round !!!!!!