Anyone have WPA working on Centrino?

No luck so far with plenty of help getting Centrino, WinXP, Linksys WRT54G
running with WPA. WEP was easy...

Anyone got Centrino running WPA?

tnx
jtm

Well, technically, I don't have a centrino...which means a "b" wireless
card. I have the "b/g" Truemobile 1300 in my new Dell laptop...just
technical info but what Intel calls Centrino is the "b".
I have WPA and have not had any problems. You might want to download the
WPA hotfix from Microsoft and be sure you have the absolute latest drivers
for both your router and card.
Good luck.

"Jim Miller" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:PaidncJNvPocSx2iU-(E-Mail Removed)...
> No luck so far with plenty of help getting Centrino, WinXP, Linksys WRT54G
> running with WPA. WEP was easy...
>
> Anyone got Centrino running WPA?
>
> tnx
> jtm
>
>

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Spent 4hrs on the phone yesterday with Linksys (they claim no knowledge of
any WPA problems) and Dell (they claim they don't support WPA at all yet
inspite of their posting of the Intel card WPA driver) with no success.

Linksys router locks up each time wireless access under WPA is attempted. By
locking up I mean the router neither no longer responds to configuration
access nor performs routing for wired clients. Power cycle reset with the
wireless client off the air is required to reestablish contact with the
router or permit wired access to inet.

All updates have been applied to WinXP (Q815485), card driver (1.2.0.56) and
router (1.30.7).

Anyone got a Centrino based notebook working with a Linksys WRT54G using
WPA-PSK/TKIP?

This security standard was supposed to be the great saviour of wireless...

jtm


"Jim Miller" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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No luck so far with plenty of help getting Centrino, WinXP, Linksys WRT54G
running with WPA. WEP was easy...

Anyone got Centrino running WPA?

tnx
jtm

Did they offer to replace your router? If not, then I'm sure that it must
be an issue with all of their WRT54Gs at the moment. Given that I've
e-mailed their tech support repeatedly about this problem (but am no longer
getting replies), I'm sure that they are aware of it.

Based on http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/Secti...e50-page16.php it
appears that the WRT54G is not the only router that suffers from this as a
Belkin AP seems to suffer from similar issues. However, I have not seen any
recent post of people having WPA-PSK issues with Belkin APs so I assume that
the lock-up problem can be fixed. My assumption is that the broadcom
chipset comes with some drivers that the OEMs then modify to suit their
needs and that the lock-up problem is found in those drivers.

Of course, being able to crash WRT54Gs by simply trying to associate with
them using 802.11b takes the concept of wardriving to a whole new level.

-Yves

"Jim Miller" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:xKCdnXTgd5t-IxuiU-(E-Mail Removed)...
> [bump]
>
> Spent 4hrs on the phone yesterday with Linksys (they claim no knowledge of
> any WPA problems) and Dell (they claim they don't support WPA at all yet
> inspite of their posting of the Intel card WPA driver) with no success.
>
> Linksys router locks up each time wireless access under WPA is attempted.
By
> locking up I mean the router neither no longer responds to configuration
> access nor performs routing for wired clients. Power cycle reset with the
> wireless client off the air is required to reestablish contact with the
> router or permit wired access to inet.
>
> All updates have been applied to WinXP (Q815485), card driver (1.2.0.56)
and
> router (1.30.7).
>
> Anyone got a Centrino based notebook working with a Linksys WRT54G using
> WPA-PSK/TKIP?
>
> This security standard was supposed to be the great saviour of wireless...
>
> jtm
>
>
> "Jim Miller" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:PaidncJNvPocSx2iU-(E-Mail Removed)...
> No luck so far with plenty of help getting Centrino, WinXP, Linksys WRT54G
> running with WPA. WEP was easy...
>
> Anyone got Centrino running WPA?
>
> tnx
> jtm
>
>
>

Hi Yves

Wardriving: I had exactly the same thought when it locked up!

Under what circumstances did you encounter lockups?

I wonder what chipset Linksys is using?

Great link BTW.

Thanks!

jtm


"Yves Konigshofer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bm6lna$lac$(E-Mail Removed)...
Did they offer to replace your router? If not, then I'm sure that it must
be an issue with all of their WRT54Gs at the moment. Given that I've
e-mailed their tech support repeatedly about this problem (but am no longer
getting replies), I'm sure that they are aware of it.

Based on http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/Secti...e50-page16.php it
appears that the WRT54G is not the only router that suffers from this as a
Belkin AP seems to suffer from similar issues. However, I have not seen any
recent post of people having WPA-PSK issues with Belkin APs so I assume that
the lock-up problem can be fixed. My assumption is that the broadcom
chipset comes with some drivers that the OEMs then modify to suit their
needs and that the lock-up problem is found in those drivers.

Of course, being able to crash WRT54Gs by simply trying to associate with
them using 802.11b takes the concept of wardriving to a whole new level.

-Yves

Same circumstances as you (except that I use one of their WPC11v3 cards,
which should be easy enough for them to test). The chipset inside the
WRT54G is from broadcom. Another problem with the router is that it does
not work in B-only mode. In this mode, it can be seen by 802.11b devices
but it will not allow them to connect. I get the feeling that they only
tested this device with their 802.11g cards.

BTW: the 1.41.2 firmware for the v1.1 router does work in the v1.0 router
but WPA-PSK still does not work. According to the revisions, the only
change made from 1.30.7 to 1.41.2 is the GUI.

I seriously hope that Linksys does not just disable WPA-PSK for 802.11b in
an updated firmware.

If there were no problem with the WRT54G and 802.11b and WPA, then I would
assume that tech support would suggest that I either return the router or
send it to them to have it fixed (it can't be the WPC11v3 since it does not
crash; only the router does). However, so far they have not done so.

-Yves

"Jim Miller" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:UD6dnSG8Z4YXtBqiU-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi Yves
>
> Wardriving: I had exactly the same thought when it locked up!
>
> Under what circumstances did you encounter lockups?
>
> I wonder what chipset Linksys is using?
>
> Great link BTW.
>
> Thanks!
>
> jtm
>
>
> "Yves Konigshofer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bm6lna$lac$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Did they offer to replace your router? If not, then I'm sure that it must
> be an issue with all of their WRT54Gs at the moment. Given that I've
> e-mailed their tech support repeatedly about this problem (but am no
longer
> getting replies), I'm sure that they are aware of it.
>
> Based on http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/Secti...e50-page16.php it
> appears that the WRT54G is not the only router that suffers from this as a
> Belkin AP seems to suffer from similar issues. However, I have not seen
any
> recent post of people having WPA-PSK issues with Belkin APs so I assume
that
> the lock-up problem can be fixed. My assumption is that the broadcom
> chipset comes with some drivers that the OEMs then modify to suit their
> needs and that the lock-up problem is found in those drivers.
>
> Of course, being able to crash WRT54Gs by simply trying to associate with
> them using 802.11b takes the concept of wardriving to a whole new level.
>
> -Yves
>
>
>

Linksys just updated their firmware for the WRT54G. Updated the firmware and
selected WPA-PSK w/ TKIP on both router and notebook and everything worked
just fine...at least for now.

jtm

"Jim Miller" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:PaidncJNvPocSx2iU-(E-Mail Removed)...
No luck so far with plenty of help getting Centrino, WinXP, Linksys WRT54G
running with WPA. WEP was easy...

Anyone got Centrino running WPA?

tnx
jtm