How do I set this up??

Question

I need a little help here as I am going crazy. I have a dell latitude running XP SP2 with a trumobile 1150 mini pci wireless card inside. I have the most recent driver (7.86.15.638) and I am trying to set-up WPA encryption. I know that this is possible with the use of the Truemobile 1150 client manager 3.30, which i have downloaded and use to connect to my linksys router. I can configure the router to WPA, but I cant configure the 1150 client manager to give me the WPA option, only WEP!! I have tried everything and really need some help!!

Thanks a million

jmwills · Answer

If one or the other is not capable of WPA, then both will have to run on WEP.

jmwills · Answer

Are you using the Dell apliication or the Windows Application (Zero Configuration Utility) to configure the card? Use the windows application.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1277020,00.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/expert/bowman_wirelesssecurity.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/wirelesssetup.mspx

happygolucky212 · Answer

That's the point though! The truemobile 1150 mini-pci was upgraded via a dell driver patch to support WPA... http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?cat=all&s=gen&c=us&l=en&cs=&k=truemobile+1150+wpa+mini&x=0&y=0

Both the driver and the client say that it will give WPA protection but i still cant seem to set it up even after updating both of them.

Any ideas??

Thanks

jmwills · Answer

You betcha....

happygolucky212 · Answer

Ahhhh, I have figured out what I was missing!! There are actually three things that I needed....1)update mini-pci card drivers so that it can take advantage of WPA
2) update router to take advantage of WPA
3) what I was missing! Download the WPA2 update for Windows XP SP2 which is not an automatic download...you have to go and search for it within microsoft downloads.

I installed it and it now gives me the option of WPA and WPA-PSK, just have to try it.

I am currently at work, so i will repost to let you know if it works finally works.
Thanks a million for all your help jmwills!! Much appreciated

Cheers

BBraxton · Answer

Fortunately we are not (yet) doing WPA but should our school decide to go that direction, this is good information for which I am grateful.

happygolucky212 · Answer

well i finally got a chance to test it out and it works great! Love the new passwords...just type in the alphanumeric password that you chose...not the usual A9U71EU and so on...something i can actually remember.

Really hope this helps others in their endeavours regarding WPA, and thanks going to jmwills

cheers

jmwills · Answer

Glad to help and be of service.

arb2002 · Answer

I'm having the same problem. I want to be able to use WPA, but my computer only gives me the option of WEP. I'm running Windows  XP SP2 on a Latitude with TrueMobile 1150. I know that the computer with the wireless router handles WPA because the other laptop we use works that way (and doesn't do WEP, hence the problem). I'm not much of a computer person, so could you please tell me exactly what updates/downloads/changes I need to make?

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