mckickflip
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this thread has no more purpose - i realized it was a silly error which i overlooked in the prefereances
hi,
I recently put a WPA/WPA2 Personal password on my wireless router (Airport Extreme, b/g model). the only computer it's not working on is my PC with XP SP2. i made sure that the network authentication on the PC was set to WPA-PSK, i think everything's right...i have the drivers installed for my Netgear WG121 but I got rid of the NetGear utility because it didn't support WPA, so I'm using the Windows Zero Configuration tool. it wasn't working at all when i had it set to automatically figure out IP/DNS addresses, so i connected to my router to find DNS server addresses and such and i put those in along with manual IP addrssses. it connected and worked for about 5 seconds before once again disconnecting... it keeps doing this whenever i change the values. i made sure the WPA hotfix was installed. The Netgear utility did not support WPA at all, which is why I got rid of it. When I googled the problem, I saw some others were able to remedy it by keeping the driver and using WZC. I'm using the latest driver from the site, but it dates back to 2003 :/
it's sending full packets back and forth at a decent rate, and it holds a connection now but I assume there is some fundamental encryption or connection error because I have to manually enter the DNS servers, and even though no internet connection.
i'm out of ideas! any help would be greatly appreciated.
hi,
I recently put a WPA/WPA2 Personal password on my wireless router (Airport Extreme, b/g model). the only computer it's not working on is my PC with XP SP2. i made sure that the network authentication on the PC was set to WPA-PSK, i think everything's right...i have the drivers installed for my Netgear WG121 but I got rid of the NetGear utility because it didn't support WPA, so I'm using the Windows Zero Configuration tool. it wasn't working at all when i had it set to automatically figure out IP/DNS addresses, so i connected to my router to find DNS server addresses and such and i put those in along with manual IP addrssses. it connected and worked for about 5 seconds before once again disconnecting... it keeps doing this whenever i change the values. i made sure the WPA hotfix was installed. The Netgear utility did not support WPA at all, which is why I got rid of it. When I googled the problem, I saw some others were able to remedy it by keeping the driver and using WZC. I'm using the latest driver from the site, but it dates back to 2003 :/
it's sending full packets back and forth at a decent rate, and it holds a connection now but I assume there is some fundamental encryption or connection error because I have to manually enter the DNS servers, and even though no internet connection.
i'm out of ideas! any help would be greatly appreciated.
