one suggestion is try an intel wireless card, , i got one off ebay for $20 i believe...its worth a try, might be able to connect to the dlink better than the dell card..i had also a dlink 624, and if i remember right , i could not get wpa either.. i now have a linksys 160n router, and very happy with it

 

http://www.jr.com/linksys/pe/LKS_WRT160N/

 

is your router on the latest firmware?  also, you might want to try switching your network to 'wireless g' only at this point.  if it's just your laptop, you might as well switch to just a single network.  This will decrease the time it takes to connect your laptop to the wireless network. 

 

if you want to talk security, you should look into 'mac address filtering'.  Enable that on your router, and enter the MAC address(s) of the wireless clients into the mac address filtering table on the router.

 

good luck...

Yes, I'm using the latest router firmware and "wireless g" only. I've about convinced myself that the problem probably lies in the laptop wireless card. I can't find any evidence that it was ever intended to support WPA2. I would have thought that the change from WPA to WPA2 would only involve software, but that is probably an eroneous assumption.

 

I have decided to be content with WPA and a long password, plus non-broadcasting SSID and MAC address filtering. Should be good enough.

Having the same problem here.

DI-524 wireless router.

Router is not the problem, other laptop (Acer Travelmate 270 with Ubuntu) connects to it in whatever encryption I choose.

 

My Dell Latitude D530 (Win XP) uses an Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG Network adaptor.

I upgraded the driver to version 12.0.0.82, and upgraded the Intel Wireless Pro program to work with it.

Open network en WEP work, but every WPA flavour doesn't: WPA-PSK with either AES or TKIP, WPA2-PSK(AES), WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK.

 

I enabled the wireless zero configuration service, to no avail.

 

I tried the steps from the dell support, just to be sure. Nope.

 

I checked http://support.microsoft.com/?id=893357 , but it is already implemented in the SP.

 

I tried another wireless network card (PCMCIA BCM4306 which works with the Acer), doesn't work either.

 

Any ideas?

All,

 

HW: Dell Latitude D610

Wireless:  Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 BG

 

I was having solid connections before upgrading the Intel Pro 2200 BG software for the driver and program. 

Upgrade was to version 12.0.4.0 version and driver was upgraded to 9.0.4.39 version. 

Now when I try to connect to the my router via the Intel software it can't get past the authentication (I use WPA2 - Personal (AES-CCMP) ), the message I see is "Authentication process to connect to the network has not started". 

 

Connecting with no security: OK, no problem to connect.

Connecting with WEP security: OK, no problem to connect.

Connecting with WPA or WPA2: impossible since the upgrade !

 

Even completely removed the Intel software and reinstalled no dice.

 

HOW DO WE GET THIS ISSUE reported TO INTEL ???