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XP on a MacBook wireless problem
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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XP on a MacBook wireless problem
"EJS77" wrote:
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? How are you running Windows, Boot Camp? |
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XP on a MacBook wireless problem
Yes. I even updated the boot camp drivers.
"solidsnake204" wrote: "EJS77" wrote: 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? How are you running Windows, Boot Camp? |
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XP on a MacBook wireless problem
EJS77 wrote:
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? 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? |
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XP on a MacBook wireless problem
"EJS77" wrote in message
... 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? Can the macbook running as Mac connect to these networks? Not all network cards or drivers support all encryption types. HTH -pk |
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XP on a MacBook wireless problem
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 "Robert Moir" wrote: EJS77 wrote: 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? 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? |
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XP on a MacBook wireless problem
EJS77 wrote:
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. 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...).. |
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XP on a MacBook wireless problem
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 "Patrick Keenan" wrote: "EJS77" wrote in message ... 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? Can the macbook running as Mac connect to these networks? Not all network cards or drivers support all encryption types. HTH -pk |
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