wpa question

Hello,

I have 2 laptops.
Laptop one is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card. OS
is XP pro sp2
Laptop two is a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an Intel PRO/wirelss 2915 internal
adapter reported to support 802.11 a/b/g OS is XP home sp2

I am connecting to a DI-624 router, hardware rev c, firmware rev 2.53

Here is my scenario.
I am able to connect both laptops to the router using WEP 128 bit
encription. No problems, no issues.
When I attempt to enable WPA using a WPA-PSK, the Dell 5100 connects fine,
the 6000 says it's connected and is unable to obtain a valid ip address.

The 5100 uses Wireless Zero config provided by XP.
I've tried using the Intel wireless config utility as well as Wireless Zero.
Still no joy.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what the issue is with the lack of WAP
on the 6000?

Hi,
As you probably have noticed, the Intel config utility has
troubleshooting tools: packet counters, logging.
Try to use them to investigate.
--PA

"Leroy" <leroy_lemon@eat_my_shorts_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I have 2 laptops.
> Laptop one is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card. OS is XP pro sp2
> Laptop two is a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an Intel PRO/wirelss 2915 internal adapter reported to support 802.11 a/b/g OS is XP
> home sp2
>
> I am connecting to a DI-624 router, hardware rev c, firmware rev 2.53
>
> Here is my scenario.
> I am able to connect both laptops to the router using WEP 128 bit encription. No problems, no issues.
> When I attempt to enable WPA using a WPA-PSK, the Dell 5100 connects fine, the 6000 says it's connected and is unable to
> obtain a valid ip address.
>
> The 5100 uses Wireless Zero config provided by XP.
> I've tried using the Intel wireless config utility as well as Wireless Zero. Still no joy.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what the issue is with the lack of WAP on the 6000?
>

Try cloning the mac address and setting the ip address manually. Rather than
allowing the router to set the address. Make sure SSID is enabled.

"Pavel A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> As you probably have noticed, the Intel config utility has
> troubleshooting tools: packet counters, logging.
> Try to use them to investigate.
> --PA
>
> "Leroy" <leroy_lemon@eat_my_shorts_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have 2 laptops.
>> Laptop one is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card.
>> OS is XP pro sp2
>> Laptop two is a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an Intel PRO/wirelss 2915
>> internal adapter reported to support 802.11 a/b/g OS is XP home sp2
>>
>> I am connecting to a DI-624 router, hardware rev c, firmware rev 2.53
>>
>> Here is my scenario.
>> I am able to connect both laptops to the router using WEP 128 bit
>> encription. No problems, no issues.
>> When I attempt to enable WPA using a WPA-PSK, the Dell 5100 connects
>> fine, the 6000 says it's connected and is unable to obtain a valid ip
>> address.
>>
>> The 5100 uses Wireless Zero config provided by XP.
>> I've tried using the Intel wireless config utility as well as Wireless
>> Zero. Still no joy.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on what the issue is with the lack of
>> WAP on the 6000?
>>
>
>

Christian wrote:
> Let Windows XP SP2 mange your wireless.

This is a good suggestion.

>
> "Leroy" <leroy_lemon@eat_my_shorts_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
[SNIP]

>>When I attempt to enable WPA using a WPA-PSK, the Dell 5100 connects fine,
>>the 6000 says it's connected and is unable to obtain a valid ip address.
[SNIP]

Make sure there is no firewall preventing the connection.

Tried the manual ip thing. still no joy on wpa. Wep works just fine. I'm
suspecting hardware incompatibility problems.

"Bad Wind" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Try cloning the mac address and setting the ip address manually. Rather
> than allowing the router to set the address. Make sure SSID is enabled.
>
> "Pavel A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>> As you probably have noticed, the Intel config utility has
>> troubleshooting tools: packet counters, logging.
>> Try to use them to investigate.
>> --PA
>>
>> "Leroy" <leroy_lemon@eat_my_shorts_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have 2 laptops.
>>> Laptop one is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card.
>>> OS is XP pro sp2
>>> Laptop two is a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an Intel PRO/wirelss 2915
>>> internal adapter reported to support 802.11 a/b/g OS is XP home sp2
>>>
>>> I am connecting to a DI-624 router, hardware rev c, firmware rev 2.53
>>>
>>> Here is my scenario.
>>> I am able to connect both laptops to the router using WEP 128 bit
>>> encription. No problems, no issues.
>>> When I attempt to enable WPA using a WPA-PSK, the Dell 5100 connects
>>> fine, the 6000 says it's connected and is unable to obtain a valid ip
>>> address.
>>>
>>> The 5100 uses Wireless Zero config provided by XP.
>>> I've tried using the Intel wireless config utility as well as Wireless
>>> Zero. Still no joy.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions on what the issue is with the lack of
>>> WAP on the 6000?
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

You should actually read the original post to see that I have tried both the
Windows wireless configuration as well as the adapter card's utility and I'm
having problems ONLY with wpa.
I've already ruled out the firewall. The problem lies between the card and
router using the wpa encription.
I'm asking if anyone else has had this particular problem between an Intel
wireless card and a D-link router.

"WEN" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Christian wrote:
>> Let Windows XP SP2 mange your wireless.
>
> This is a good suggestion.
>
>>
>> "Leroy" <leroy_lemon@eat_my_shorts_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
> [SNIP]
>
>>>When I attempt to enable WPA using a WPA-PSK, the Dell 5100 connects
>>>fine,
>>>the 6000 says it's connected and is unable to obtain a valid ip address.
> [SNIP]
>
> Make sure there is no firewall preventing the connection.

Thanks, I'll try that and see if I can find what's going on behind the
scenes.

"Pavel A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> As you probably have noticed, the Intel config utility has
> troubleshooting tools: packet counters, logging.
> Try to use them to investigate.
> --PA
>
> "Leroy" <leroy_lemon@eat_my_shorts_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have 2 laptops.
>> Laptop one is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card.
>> OS is XP pro sp2
>> Laptop two is a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an Intel PRO/wirelss 2915
>> internal adapter reported to support 802.11 a/b/g OS is XP home sp2
>>
>> I am connecting to a DI-624 router, hardware rev c, firmware rev 2.53
>>
>> Here is my scenario.
>> I am able to connect both laptops to the router using WEP 128 bit
>> encription. No problems, no issues.
>> When I attempt to enable WPA using a WPA-PSK, the Dell 5100 connects
>> fine, the 6000 says it's connected and is unable to obtain a valid ip
>> address.
>>
>> The 5100 uses Wireless Zero config provided by XP.
>> I've tried using the Intel wireless config utility as well as Wireless
>> Zero. Still no joy.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on what the issue is with the lack of
>> WAP on the 6000?
>>
>
>

Leroy wrote:
> You should actually read the original post to see that I have tried both the
> Windows wireless configuration as well as the adapter card's utility and I'm
> having problems ONLY with wpa.
> I've already ruled out the firewall. The problem lies between the card and
> router using the wpa encription.
> I'm asking if anyone else has had this particular problem between an Intel
> wireless card and a D-link router.

Well, Leroy, you should actually learn some manners. Since you're so
smart you'll doubtless figure this out on your own.

> I'm asking if anyone else has had this particular problem between a
> Intel

FWIW I have the exact same symptoms.

I suspect the problem is on the router side, but it's just suspicion
Other network cards have no problem at all, but my inspiron 6000's car
constantly drops WEP. Connection is good. Cycling the router brings bac
the connection. Just started looking for a solution this evening


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I could only use WEP until I updated the drivers for my wireless network
cards. Once I updated the drivers for them, I was able to use WPA. I have
three computers and two of them have the Linksys WMP54GS wireless network
cards. They both needed the updated drivers. Once updated I was able to use
WPA and both now work fine.

So, maybe you might want to check on that. Maybe your XP Home needs to have
updated drivers for the network card whereas they might already be in the XP
Pro.

"created" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> its not a hardware problem its a windows problem. I have a compaq presario
> r3000 with xp home and xp pro on it. I use wpa-psk with AES
> when using xp home I can not get an ip and I have tried everything I can
> think of, but using xp pro, wpa works perfectly first try. there is a
> driver or something somewhere in xp home that does not work properly with
> wpa encryption. if anyone knows what this driver is I would love to know
>