Clue please?
Jan. 10th, 2011 10:18 pmI can't figure out how to get my netbook, running XP Home SP3, to connect to the WPA-encrypted ad-hoc network I set up on my Win7 machines.
Using the originated machine (the 64-bit one) to write network wizard file on a USB device isn't working. The wireless networking properties dialog doesn't acknowledge the existence of anything more complicated than WEP. Trying to download Windows updates that allegedly provide WPA functionality just get me messages that I don't need to install that update.
It doesn't matter all that much right now, but I shall be annoyed if I get my proper broadband modem in a couple of weeks and then find the netbook (which is actually the newest member of the herd, not much more than a year old) can't connect to it. I was rather counting on using that for surfing while the big laptop does DVD-player duty. (Though that may be all right, if the WPA key is provided; my problem may be that I'm using a passphrase on the Win7 machines and the XP wants the actual key, which I can't provide, though one would have hoped the USB solution would take care of that.
Sigh. Maybe the solution would be perfectly obvious if I wasn't (still) sick.
Using the originated machine (the 64-bit one) to write network wizard file on a USB device isn't working. The wireless networking properties dialog doesn't acknowledge the existence of anything more complicated than WEP. Trying to download Windows updates that allegedly provide WPA functionality just get me messages that I don't need to install that update.
It doesn't matter all that much right now, but I shall be annoyed if I get my proper broadband modem in a couple of weeks and then find the netbook (which is actually the newest member of the herd, not much more than a year old) can't connect to it. I was rather counting on using that for surfing while the big laptop does DVD-player duty. (Though that may be all right, if the WPA key is provided; my problem may be that I'm using a passphrase on the Win7 machines and the XP wants the actual key, which I can't provide, though one would have hoped the USB solution would take care of that.
Sigh. Maybe the solution would be perfectly obvious if I wasn't (still) sick.