I have tried WPA2 and AES on Airlive connection - no result. Edimax uses
Ralink RT2500 chipset listed as compatible with Vista64, don't know D-Link
one. May Linksys firmware be an issue? Airlive access point is connected to
this router via cable.
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TomekB
"Martin Brown" wrote:
Quote:
> On Apr 1, 11:15 am, TomekB <Tom...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote:
> > I have a problem with connecting Vista 64 Home Premium to wireless network..
> > Hardware - tried D-Link DWL-G510 and Edimax 7128 adapters with newest Vista
> > drivers
> > I have 2 wifi networks broadcasted by Linksys WRT54G and Airlive WP-5460AP
> > (latest firmware) - different channels set, both with WPA TKIP.
>
> WPA-PSK & TKIP seems to be a complete disaster with Vista in
> combination with certain older routers. I am a bit surprised that the
> Linksys fails though. See the longer adjacent thread titled WPA-PSK.
> WPA2 seems to work OK & the much less secure WEP will probably work
> too.
> Quote:
> > Vista connects from time to time to Linksys but either only locally with no
> > internet acces or with very poor internet transmission and then dropping
> > connection. Connection to Airlive is rejected as wrong passphrase (although
> > its correct). With no encryption only local connection to Airlive is
> > possible. XP computers work with no problems with both devices.
> > What can be wrong?
>
> Vista support of WPA & TKIP encryption is somewhat flakey. My 3com
> doesn't even get past exchanging the secondary keys. Worth trying AES
> encryption if you have the option.
>
> It would be interesting to know what chipsets used on the failing
> cards...
>
> Regards,
> Martin Brown
>