Windows XP SP2, Wireless Problems

[Craig]

Right then, a bit of an update! The way i got around it was disabling NOD32's "IMON" thing, that was stopping me getting an IP address. If you have NOD32, use the latest release of it which you can get off their website

[Jiff Lemon]

No NOD here

[nichomach]

Significant NOD absence here also; drat and double drat!

[andydyson@yahoo]

My son has managed to fix the problem: here is his account of how he did it.

It turns out that our wi-fi access point is acting in mixed mode - i.e. is is

providing both WEP (the old standard) and WPA (the new standard) encryption

and authentication. Although I had tried to force windows into using WEP

only, by manually entering the settings (right click connection, properties,

wireless networks, properties), it still reverted to WPA-PSK (pre shared key

- the norm in small networks - meaning that the codes must be manually

entered on all machines), instead of connecting using WEP - this is probably

a bug. The solution was simply to use the "new" wireless networks interface,

and when prompted, enter the WPA key instead of the WEP one.

This problem and solution should affect machines that:
* are running XP with SP2 installed
* are running mixed mode access points

[nichomach]

Well-spotted that man!