XP on a MacBook wireless problem

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I have a couple of Macs that run Windows XP. Everything runs fine with them
except I cannot connect to my secured wireless network. The network is
secured with WPA2 and MAC authentication. When I attempt to connect tthe the
network I get a message that says the network cannot be reached or is out of
range. If I create the network connection manually I am not able to connect
at all. Is this a Windows XP issue or a Macintosh running XP issue?
 
EJS77 said:
I have a couple of Macs that run Windows XP. Everything runs fine with them
except I cannot connect to my secured wireless network. The network is
secured with WPA2 and MAC authentication. When I attempt to connect tthe the
network I get a message that says the network cannot be reached or is out of
range. If I create the network connection manually I am not able to connect
at all. Is this a Windows XP issue or a Macintosh running XP issue?
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How are you running Windows, Boot Camp?
 
EJS77 said:
I have a couple of Macs that run Windows XP. Everything runs fine
with them except I cannot connect to my secured wireless network.
The network is secured with WPA2 and MAC authentication. When I
attempt to connect tthe the network I get a message that says the
network cannot be reached or is out of range. If I create the
network connection manually I am not able to connect at all. Is this
a Windows XP issue or a Macintosh running XP issue?
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Just as an experiment, what happens if you try the following. Just as an
experiment mind you, I'm not suggesting you leave it like this
1) turn off wpa2
2) turn wpa2 back on, turn off mac authentication
3) use wep instead of wpa2

Is your SSID hidden or visible?
 
EJS77 said:
I have a couple of Macs that run Windows XP. Everything runs fine with
them
except I cannot connect to my secured wireless network. The network is
secured with WPA2 and MAC authentication. When I attempt to connect tthe
the
network I get a message that says the network cannot be reached or is out
of
range. If I create the network connection manually I am not able to
connect
at all. Is this a Windows XP issue or a Macintosh running XP issue?
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Can the macbook running as Mac connect to these networks? Not all network
cards or drivers support all encryption types.

HTH
-pk
 
I am able to connect to the SSID that is open. I have APs that allow
multiple SSIDs with different configurations. The open network is fine. I
have not tried the WEP, but I will give it a try.

I also have MacBooks that run the Mac OS and I am able to connect to this
network.

It is very strange. BTW the card is seen in device manager as a Atheros
AR5008.

Thanks,

Eric
 
EJS77 said:
I am able to connect to the SSID that is open. I have APs that allow
multiple SSIDs with different configurations. The open network is
fine. I have not tried the WEP, but I will give it a try.

I also have MacBooks that run the Mac OS and I am able to connect to
this network.

It is very strange. BTW the card is seen in device manager as a
Atheros AR5008.
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Well if you've only got one SSID that shows this problem with one of many
identical laptops then I have to agree, it's certainly strange. Stupid
question, 'cos I'm sure you've already checked this: Driver version on this
machine identical to the ones that work?

Is there a firmware update for the wireless network card, and if so is this
device at the same level as the others? (IIRC the update Apple released a
while ago to allow some macbooks that were sold with 802.11g networking to
become 802.11n networking was a firmware update, so you may want to see if
that might be in play here, e.g. is it applied? If not could/should it be?).
Oh yeah, and Patricks suggestion for a test is a good one too, it won't
eliminate a driver issue because OSX and Windows will use different drivers
obviously, but if it craters under OSX as well as Windows then it's
definately a hardware or firmware issue (not sure that the reverse will be
proved if it works mind you...)..
 
Patrick,

I have miniPCIexpress card having AR5008(AR5416) chipset running on Win XP
Sp2. Yesterday I've spent the whole day having issue with my Asmax AR 904
router. Iturned on WPA2, 2 computers having different cards where working
perfectly, mine not. I've changed the algorithm to TKIP, no changes. I've
switched to WPA-PSK does not work either? Next I've used WEP was working ok
and of course without any security was fine as well.
I'm wondeing whether the problem is only inside my wireless card or also in
my router. Today will test another card on USB linksys, if it will be working
just fine with WPA2 i suppose we should write to vendor as this car is really
not compatibile with Windows XP and WPA cypher.

I've spent the whole f*** day on reinstalling downloading all necessayr
updates including also SP3 wor M$ XP and nothing helped. Even on virgin
system it didn't wokred with orginal drivers which I got with my card.

Will keep you informed if I was sucessfull with that USB card. \


Maurice
 
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