Trouble with Belkin - Please can someone help???

I am having trouble installing a Belkin Pre-N wireless card.

Their telephone support is TOTALLY useless, and they are permanently engaged
now.

I have installed the wireless router ok. I have selected WPA security on the
router. When I come to set up the card on the remote machine, the only
security option I am being offered is WEP, even though the router is set up
under WPA. Needless to say, there is no throughput of data. The remote
machine is running a fairly early version of Win XP Home - I was planning to
upgrade to SP2 once this machine is online. Does WPA require a later version
of Windows? Is there any other reason why this may be happening?

Thanks

Geoff

GB wrote:
> I am having trouble installing a Belkin Pre-N wireless card.
>
> Their telephone support is TOTALLY useless, and they are permanently engaged
> now.
>
> I have installed the wireless router ok. I have selected WPA security on the
> router. When I come to set up the card on the remote machine, the only
> security option I am being offered is WEP, even though the router is set up
> under WPA. Needless to say, there is no throughput of data. The remote
> machine is running a fairly early version of Win XP Home - I was planning to
> upgrade to SP2 once this machine is online. Does WPA require a later version
> of Windows? Is there any other reason why this may be happening?
>
> Thanks
>
> Geoff
>
>
>
>
http://tinyurl.com/65hh5

"NBT" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> http://tinyurl.com/65hh5


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I really cannot thank you enough for this very helpful link. Worked
perfectly!

No mention this as even a possibility in the Belkin manual, of course.
Hmmmmm

Geoff

On Sun, 8 May 2005 15:51:56 +0100, "GB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"NBT" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message

>> http://tinyurl.com/65hh5

>I really cannot thank you enough for this very helpful link. Worked
>perfectly!

a) thanks for snipping... hate a one-liner response made a bit worse
when there's a URL with no explanation of what it links to...

b) what is at the end of that URL ? Something extraordinary about
the Belkin unit, I guess, but quoting it (or a precis of it) in
a posting would mean others looking for a similar solution may
find the description using Google, while the URL might no longer
work in a couple of years...

On Sun, 08 May 2005 17:49:26 +0100, poster <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>what is at the end of that URL ?

some Microsoft XP download for WPA (wireless protected access)

Phil
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On 08 May 2005 20:14, Phil Thompson wrote:

>some Microsoft XP download for WPA (wireless protected access)

Ta! I'm glad I don't use wireless with these additional probs :-)

"poster" <us-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 8 May 2005 15:51:56 +0100, "GB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>"NBT" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/65hh5
>
>>I really cannot thank you enough for this very helpful link. Worked
>>perfectly!
>
> a) thanks for snipping... hate a one-liner response made a bit worse
> when there's a URL with no explanation of what it links to...
>
> b) what is at the end of that URL ? Something extraordinary about
> the Belkin unit, I guess, but quoting it (or a precis of it) in
> a posting would mean others looking for a similar solution may
> find the description using Google, while the URL might no longer
> work in a couple of years...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

What i did not know is that Win XP shipped without WPA support. This PC was
not connected to internet, so did not have any service patches applied. The
above is patch for installing wpa support.

OK - job done