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September 6th, 2004 21:00
Installing WPA drivers in Win2K ?
I've got a dual-boot Latitude D800 with a Truemobile 1300 miniPCI card on it. I am having trouble installing the wireless drivers/utility on Windows 2000 - the main goal being to enable WPA-PSK as the current setup does only WEP. The file is R81435.EXE<ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed / replaced from this post by Dell>
(Euro version, but tried US and Japan versions as well with same result).
At the beginning of install, setup will exit with a "DevMgr 502" error and claim setup is unable to continue. A partial workaround is to install the drivers from the .inf files rather than setup.exe - result is that driver is updated OK, but I am still unable to get the wireless utility nor WPA installed.
Wireless will otherwise work OK both on ad-hoc mode and against an Asus WL-500g access point on WEP but no WPA. If the same laptop with Linux, same drivers with ndiswrapper, and a third-party (i.e. Linux, non-dell) supplicant utility, WPA will work so I am pretty confident that the hardware and drivers are OK. This looks like an installer issue.
Questions:
- Has anyone had this problem?
- What is the "DevMgr 502" error? What should I do to correct it?
- Any way to work around, and get the utility installed without the standard installer?
Best regards,
-Felipe
Message Edited by FelipeC on 09-07-2004 10:56 AM
Message Edited by FelipeC on 09-07-2004 11:01 AM
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johnallg
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September 11th, 2004 16:00
FelipeC
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September 13th, 2004 07:00
Thanks John,
I am indeed aware that Win2K does not have WPA support out of the box, and that third party software is needed.
Hence the need to install R81435.EXE.<ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed / replaced from this post by Dell>
This is already a third party software utility which mentions WPA support in help docs.
Imagine my disappointment when, after finding this upgrade, not being able to install it. Any suggestions on the installer issue?
Cheers,
-Felipe
Message Edited by FelipeC on 09-13-2004 10:40 AM
RobStone
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September 18th, 2004 22:00
Felipe
I believe the Update you have used WILL work in Windows 2000, I am using the exact same one with 2003 and had the same difficulty. The only problem is that Windows 2000/2003, unlike XP SP2, don't support the configuration of WPA with their own utilities. All you need to do is open up the Dell Wireless LAN Utility and Check the box 'Let this tool manage you wireless connections'. This takes control of wireless connectivity away from Windows and thus releases all the settings for WPA to be available within the Dell tool - Hit the 'Configure' or 'Add' buttons. I have had the exact same problem and found the answer eventually by pure luck. I am now connected with full WPA-PSK!
Good Luck
Rob