Comments for My laptop only seems to support WEP encryption, how do I get WPA2?

Comment from Rudi Taminiau on 2010-02-16

2010-02-17T07:09:03Z

Hi,
I have a DLink DVA-G3340S,It cost $350 and is full of problems. One of them being WPA-PSK, when set to this it crashes, it is quite happy on WEP.
DLink appear to have abandoned it with latest firmware update at Feb.2008.
Now we have an additional laptop with XP Pro SP3.
My question is does SP3 support WEP because apart from buying a new router and WEP being "old hat", I need WEP.

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Comment from vincent on 2009-09-17

2009-09-17T20:13:11Z

Yes, I had the same problem, but with XP Home. Never experienced it with XP Pro, not even before SP3.
If none of the above work, install this update from microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=662BB74D-E7C1-48D6-95EE-1459234F4483&displaylang=en

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Comment from Michael Horowitz on 2009-09-15

2009-09-16T03:17:27Z

The earlier reader comment is not correct. Windows XP SP2 supports WPA (really TKIP). It needs a hotfix applied, however, to support WPA2 (really AES-CCMP). Windows XP SP3 includes support for WPA2.

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Comment from Michael on 2009-09-15

2009-09-15T20:25:14Z

Get a PC card with "g" WiFi band or above. That laptop has a "b" band WiFi internal adapter, limited to WEP, if I am not mistaken. Also, I would disable the internal wireless adapter to simplify subsequent wireless network connections.

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Comment from anth11 on 2009-09-15

2009-09-15T18:55:11Z

Hi Leo
I wonder if this laptop has Service Pack 2 installed, because WPA won't work without it.

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