Re: WPA, Fujitsu P1032 notebook w/ TI CardBus controller & Linksys WPC54G card

From: Sturm (zixor_at_wolfpac.dyndns.org)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:13:01 -0800

For my crappy compaq lan-express card (they have never released WPA capable
drivers, the morons), I determined that it used the intersil prism 2.5
chipset. I was then able to use the Fujitsu P2120 Windows XP Wireless LAN
Drivers, which do have WPA support. These have been working nicely with my
Cisco AP with WPA enabled for some months now. So, try to determine what
chipset your WLAN adapter has, and work from there.

<johnbartley@email.com> wrote in message
news:41f00a1d.12260546@news.individual.de...
> 128-bit WEP is well and truly cracked, offering about as much protection
> againist a computer-literate teenager as a screen door on an SSBN. So, I
> need to change to WPA security for the home WLAN.
>
> The Linksys WRT54G wireless router? No problem.
>
> The Linksys WPC54G card on a Fujitsu P1032 notebook with XP? Well, neither
> love nor rupees could evince a resolution from Linksys Support. I had
> already upgraded to Service Pack Two, and was suprised when they sent me
> on
> a snipe hunt to Microsoft re: Q815485
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815485
> for, once you install Spack-2 you have done what M$ requires.
>
> Three more support calls later, I recall from earlier work when I first
> set
> up the WLAN that the TI CardBus controller built into the Fujitsu P1032 is
> problematic with the standard LAN card driver, and a special driver must
> be
> used. Said special driver
> ftp://ftp.linksys.com/beta/wpc54g_beta_driver.zip
> alas, is NG for WPA, while the standard driver (ver 3.30.15.0)
> http://www.linksys.com/download/driver.asp?dlid=92&osid=6
> is NG for anything on the P1032.
>
> So, which other WiFi cards do y'all use on the P1032s, and do they support
> WPA?
>
> Please don't tell me about your WiFi card from another notebook computer,
> unless you can confirm without question it works with the TI CardBus
> controller in the P1032.
>
> Thank you all very much, in advance, for your on-topic responses.
>
>
>
>
>
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