Dell TrueMobile 1300 and WPA2

Question

Does anyone know if the Dell TrueMobile internal 1300 supports WPA2, in particular, preshared key ?   Does the Dell or Windows XP Pro driver support same ?   Thanks     Peter

brece · Answer

I seemed to have stumbled upon making this work. I don't know which one of the following gave me support but try both I guess.

I installed the latest driver for the network card from Dell's website (R94827.EXE)

And

I installed Microsoft's Support for WPA2 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;893357

Now when I go to wireless networks and hit properties on one of my Access Points, I get "AES" as an option for Encryption if WPA-PSK is selected under Network Authentication. I believe this will only work in XP SP2.

isprog · Answer

Thank Brece for your reply. Greatly appreciated. I'll give it a shot.   Peter

VBdotNet · Answer

See this link. A portion of it is below. In short WPA2 requires that the hardware be able to support it. The TrueMobile 1370 and 1470 are WPA2 certified. Changes to wireless APs With WPA, wireless network devices could be upgraded through a firmware update because the WPA security features leveraged the existing computational facilities designed for WEP. With WPA2, however, a wireless AP that does not have the computational facilities to perform the more complex calculations for AES CCMP cannot be upgraded through a firmware update and must be replaced. These types of wireless APs are typically older wireless APs manufactured before inclusion of support for the 802.11g standard. Newer wireless APs, such as those that support the 802.11g standard, might be upgradeable with a firmware update. Check with your wireless AP vendor documentation or Web site to determine if your wireless APs require replacement or a firmware update to support WPA2. If only a firmware update is needed, obtain the update from your wireless AP vendor and install it on your wireless APs. For information about wireless APs that have been WPA2 certified, see the Wi-Fi Alliance Certified Products Listing.

brece · Answer

OK, I am not sure if just AES is equivalent to WPA2, however, I do get options on my TrueMobile 1300 for WPA2, so I know that it supports it, I do not have a true WPA2 access point, so I couldn't test the connectivity. However, I have been reading about WPA2, and it seems that it is WPA with AES encryption and another piece to which I am not fully understanding, so by using AES encryption with WPA, it is only partially WPA2. Does anyone have any more info on this?

Floatplaner · Answer

I have a latitude D800 with a Dell truemobile 1300 mini pci card. i am trying to get the laptop to join a WPA2 network. i downloaded MS XP service pack 3 update but my machine still does not recognize WPA as a network security option. do i need to download a new dell driver for the card to make it recognize wpa2?

thanks

ps56k · Answer

does the internal mini-pci 1300 card support WPA2 - ?

I'm using the Dell TruMobile 1300 Utility vs Windows to config the 1300 card,
and it only has WEP.... as far as I can tell.

It appears that the Windows config screen - if I would use that -
would support the WPA2, but then we loose the utility info...

gedoll · Answer

R94827.exe worked like a champ on old Insipron 5150 with 1300 card. Since XP SP3 was already installed no other changes were required. After installation and reboot the WiFi Connect correctly prompted for the passkey. If you check the connection properties you'll see that all variants of authentication schemes are now supported up through WPS2-PSK (previously only offered WEP).

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Dell TrueMobile 1300 and WPA2

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