WPA Personal Protection and Windows XP Connectivity

[saturninus]

I'm having a hard time trying to get my mother's laptop to connect to the Internet.

I've set up the router to run WPA protection using an AES algorithm. I have my Windows Vista PC set up to handle this encryption.

My mother's XP laptop automatically configures itself and asks for the password. I supply it, yet the only Internet application that will work is the MSN messenger. The web and other applications will not work. Manually configuring the router does not seem to help either.

Any help would be appreciated. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe something I overlooked?

I could probably get her computer to connect if I disable all wireless encryption but I don't want to do that.

[VazT]

You should try saving your configured wireless profile on a thumb drive and transfering it that way to your mother laptop. The WPA is usually a very long sequence and if you are entering it manually then maye you are mis-typing the sequence.

[saturninus]

What do you mean?

I've set the router for WPA Personal. Now all I have to do is get the adapter on the Windows XP machine to recognize the encryption right? I thought this was done through Windows Networking.

I have it set up on my Windows Vista machine just fine. I don't see why it's not working with my mother's setup.

[johnwill]

If anything connects over the wireless link, the WPA is NOT the issue.

Question: Does the computer connect using a wired connection?


With the wireless connected, please do this.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

Type the following two commands, one at a time, followed by the Enter key:

PING yahoo.com

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.