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Wireless card won't connect to home network fuzzy1 03-20-2008
Posted by fuzzy1 on March 20, 2008, 4:49 pm
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 Help! I have spent hours trying to connect my Dell 600m wireless card to my
home network.
The home network is a D-Link DI-624 set at WPA2-AES with a nine digit/number
network passphrase. I know this is all set correctly as my Toshiba laptop
with a NetGear wireless card connects no problem.
The Dell defaults to WEP with an open system, when I change them to the
above configuration and try to connect it doesn't and defaults back to
WEP/open.
I have tried to manually enter everything but with no results.
The Dell wireless card is a Broadcom network adapter.
I have also hardwired the laptop to the router and it connects with no
problem.
I can't figure this one out is it a setting or is the card messed up? I
should mention everything was working perfectly before I set-up the security
so I highly doubt it's the card as I can connect to any open system with the
laptop.
Please post messages here as my e-mail addy will not work.

Thanks

Terry




Posted by G.G. Willikers on March 20, 2008, 6:02 pm
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 fuzzy1 wrote:
> Help! I have spent hours trying to connect my Dell 600m wireless card to my
> home network.
> The home network is a D-Link DI-624 set at WPA2-AES with a nine digit/number
> network passphrase. I know this is all set correctly as my Toshiba laptop
> with a NetGear wireless card connects no problem.
> The Dell defaults to WEP with an open system, when I change them to the
> above configuration and try to connect it doesn't and defaults back to
> WEP/open.
> I have tried to manually enter everything but with no results.
> The Dell wireless card is a Broadcom network adapter.
> I have also hardwired the laptop to the router and it connects with no
> problem.
> I can't figure this one out is it a setting or is the card messed up? I
> should mention everything was working perfectly before I set-up the security
> so I highly doubt it's the card as I can connect to any open system with the
> laptop.
> Please post messages here as my e-mail addy will not work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Terry
>
>
>

Driver update for your card.

google: Broadcom Wireless Utility, The HP link, it will solve your probs.


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(formerly) Monsignor Boddom

Posted by Barry Watzman on March 20, 2008, 8:34 pm
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From your description, it's definitely a settings issue, the card is
working fine. This can be quite difficult, as sometimes the software on
the wireless router and the network card transform the entered strings
into actual encryption keys differently .... sometimes you have to
resort to pure hexadecimal for entering the encryption keys. Also,
there are a number of flavors of WPA, and not all devices are compatible
with the same different flavors.


fuzzy1 wrote:
> Help! I have spent hours trying to connect my Dell 600m wireless card to my
> home network.
> The home network is a D-Link DI-624 set at WPA2-AES with a nine digit/number
> network passphrase. I know this is all set correctly as my Toshiba laptop
> with a NetGear wireless card connects no problem.
> The Dell defaults to WEP with an open system, when I change them to the
> above configuration and try to connect it doesn't and defaults back to
> WEP/open.
> I have tried to manually enter everything but with no results.
> The Dell wireless card is a Broadcom network adapter.
> I have also hardwired the laptop to the router and it connects with no
> problem.
> I can't figure this one out is it a setting or is the card messed up? I
> should mention everything was working perfectly before I set-up the security
> so I highly doubt it's the card as I can connect to any open system with the
> laptop.
> Please post messages here as my e-mail addy will not work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Terry
>
>
>

Posted by G.G. Willikers on March 21, 2008, 12:03 am
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Barry Watzman wrote:
> From your description, it's definitely a settings issue, the card is
> working fine. This can be quite difficult, as sometimes the software on
> the wireless router and the network card transform the entered strings
> into actual encryption keys differently .... sometimes you have to
> resort to pure hexadecimal for entering the encryption keys. Also,
> there are a number of flavors of WPA, and not all devices are compatible
> with the same different flavors.
>
>
The Broadcom Wireless Utility adds the WPA2 support that the Dell
drivers sometimes lack.

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The RIGHT REVEREND G.G. WILLIKERS
(formerly) Monsignor Boddom

Posted by Barry Watzman on March 21, 2008, 11:01 pm
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There are multiple sub-variants of WPA encryption


G.G. Willikers wrote:
> Barry Watzman wrote:
>> From your description, it's definitely a settings issue, the card is
>> working fine. This can be quite difficult, as sometimes the software
>> on the wireless router and the network card transform the entered
>> strings into actual encryption keys differently .... sometimes you
>> have to resort to pure hexadecimal for entering the encryption keys.
>> Also, there are a number of flavors of WPA, and not all devices are
>> compatible with the same different flavors.
>>
>>
> The Broadcom Wireless Utility adds the WPA2 support that the Dell
> drivers sometimes lack.
>

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