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Wireless Connectivity with XP doesn't work but does with OpenSuse 10.3
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Posted by: Airdawg10
I had an old netgear router and was having some problems with the wireless signlal (on all computers using it) so I replaced the router with an Airlink 101 that they had at Fry's for cheap.
So I brought the thing home, set it up. I set it up using a WPA2 password encryption. My wife can get her Macbook to connect up no problem (and without the problems I was having with the Netgear), I can get my desktop (with a wireless card) to connect up no problem, but I can't get my Toshiba running Windows XP (Service Pack 2) to connect. It attempts to connect, never asks me for the password encryption (even though in the list it recognizes the network as being password protected and with the correct WPA2 label), and eventually a little bubble will popup from the system tray saying, "windows was unable to find a certificate to log you onto the network".
The strange part, though, is if I reboot my system and boot (on the same comp) into OpenSuse 10.3, my comp has no problem at all finding the network, getting the password, and logging on.
The wireless is integrated into my laptop. I have yet to try the wireless in XP on another network...
Any ideas?
Posted by: Airdawg10
or not... lol
Posted by: Airdawg10
So I finally figured out how to get this going on Windows XP... I went to my wireless Network (right click) Propertied, Wireless Networks Tab... Finding the Network that I knew to be mine, I clicked on properties and had to manually tell it what type of security it needed to find. Turns out I can't used WPA2 I guess, so I changed the wireless router security to WPA-PSK, manually changed my computer to the same, and it all works now... But had to do it all manually to fix it, even if I went to a security-free wireless network on my router before, I couldn't get it to go...
I guess once I used to0-high security level in the first place I just confused the hell out of Windows XP and it never figured it out after that... oh well
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