Re: Netgear WiFi Equipment & WPA/WPA2

Hi!

It's Windoze 2000 that I think is the problem.

I don't think this is the case. I just finished trying a fresh fully
patched installation of XP Professional SP2 on a spare computer.

I don't know if the built in Windows Wireless utility would work or
not. I don't really care to use it even if it does work. Netgear's
tool still fails to function in the exact same way that it fails to
function on Windows 2000.

<http://atheros.com/pt/AR5005UG.htm>

I wonder if Atheros has a generic driver for this thing? I'll have to
check that out to see.

This still leaves the possibility that Netgear
screwed it up, but I doubt it.

They must have done something silly. I put in a request to their tech
support, but I can't get the reply that has been made in regards to my
problem. Operating under the impression that I didn't have to register
(because the site said so), I didn't register. I just submitted a
request.

There's been a reply to my inquiry, but I can't get it now because I
have no way of logging into their site and they didn't bother to
include the reply text in their e-mail to me.

Querying their site for a password results in my getting an e-mail
back with a password, but the site just ignores me and returns no
error when I log in.

I'm just starting to get ever-so-slightly put out with Netgear. I
purchased this device because it was advertised as having a much
longer operating range than normal. That's a claim that it does live
up to, at least in part and when running without encryption. For my
particular application, operating a long way from an access point is
important.

Meanwhile, it would be interesting to try any
other wireless device that supports WPA/WPA2
on the Windoze 2000 computer in this computer.

I tried two different Windows 2000 computers as test points with the
Netgear adapter just to see how I'd need to set up the equipment for a
good signal. Both are laptops with built in wireless. One has an Intel
2200BG adapter and the other uses a Broadcom B/G chipset. Both
adapters work perfectly on Windows 2000 with WPA2 encryption in use.
These adapters were shut off when I was testing with the Netgear.

The XP machine I tested has no wireless network adapter onboard. It is
an HP Pavilion with a Celeron running @ 533MHz...not exactly the
fastest thing around but it should work for a test.

In other words, the problem remains regardless of the computer. (The
system with Cardbus was yet another computer entirely and it has no
USB ports.)

William

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