No WPA2 With Wireless Zero Configuration

[Daddy]

I have a wireless network at home. It works great. I currently manage my network with the utility provided by my wireless equipment manufacturer (D-Link.) Their utility also works great.

I wondered what it would be like to use Windows XP's Wireless Zero Configuration to manage my network, My network uses WPA2-AES encryption. I have Service Pack 3, which supposedly adds support for WPA2.

So I switched over to WZC. It can't find my network.

I thought: Maybe I need to use XP's Wireless Network Setup Wizard. Perhaps I didn't need to do this, but that's not the point. The point is: As I was working through the Wizard I realized there is no support for WPA2. The Wizard let me setup a network with WPA-TKIP, but I could not implement WPA2-AES.

Now I'm back to using D-Link's WLAN utility. My question is: If I have Service Pack 3...why doesn't WZC support WPA2?

This may or may not matter: At the time I installed SP 3, I did not have a wireless network.

[I also tried to install the specific update--917021--that implements support for WPA2, but Windows wouldn't let the update install because it knows I have SP 3.]

Thanks very much for your help.

Daddy

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf (MVP)]

I have a wireless network at home. It works great. I currently manage my network with the utility provided by my wireless equipment manufacturer (D-Link.) Their utility also works great.

I wondered what it would be like to use Windows XP's Wireless Zero Configuration to manage my network, My network uses WPA2-AES encryption. I have Service Pack 3, which supposedly adds support for WPA2.

So I switched over to WZC. It can't find my network.

I thought: Maybe I need to use XP's Wireless Network Setup Wizard. Perhaps I didn't need to do this, but that's not the point. The point is: As I was working through the Wizard I realized there is no support for WPA2. The Wizard let me setup a network with WPA-TKIP, but I could not implement WPA2-AES.

Now I'm back to using D-Link's WLAN utility. My question is: If I have Service Pack 3...why doesn't WZC support WPA2?

This may or may not matter: At the time I installed SP 3, I did not have a wireless network.

[I also tried to install the specific update--917021--that implements support for WPA2, but Windows wouldn't let the update install because it knows I have SP 3.]

Thanks very much for your help.

I forgot to ask, since you'd installed SP3, did you update your WiFi
driver as well? Some post-SP3 WiFi & WZC updates were also released
that you could install as well are listed below (especially KB953609):

1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957931
2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959873
3. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958071
4. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957218
5. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953609
6. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953761

 

[Peter Foldes]

You need to format your hard drive and reinstall windows.

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I have a wireless network at home. It works great. I currently manage my
network with the utility provided by my wireless equipment manufacturer
(D-Link.) Their utility also works great.

I wondered what it would be like to use Windows XP's Wireless Zero
Configuration to manage my network, My network uses WPA2-AES encryption. I
have Service Pack 3, which supposedly adds support for WPA2.

So I switched over to WZC. It can't find my network.

I thought: Maybe I need to use XP's Wireless Network Setup Wizard. Perhaps I
didn't need to do this, but that's not the point. The point is: As I was
working through the Wizard I realized there is no support for WPA2. The
Wizard let me setup a network with WPA-TKIP, but I could not implement
WPA2-AES.

Now I'm back to using D-Link's WLAN utility. My question is: If I have
Service Pack 3...why doesn't WZC support WPA2?

This may or may not matter: At the time I installed SP 3, I did not have a
wireless network.

[I also tried to install the specific update--917021--that implements
support for WPA2, but Windows wouldn't let the update install because it
knows I have SP 3.]

Thanks very much for your help.

Daddy

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf (MVP)]

You need to format your hard drive and reinstall windows.

While I am sure that would maybe solve the problem, it's a poor
solution.

 

[Guest]

It's a spoof message.

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While I am sure that would maybe solve the problem, it's a poor
solution.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

[Forwarded to Networking newsgroup via crosspost]

 

[Daddy]

Hi there pcbutts1.

Daddy

 

[Daddy]

Thanks to all who replied. (Well, with one exception.)

I needed to broadcast my SSID. Once I did that, everything worked perfectly.

Daddy

 

[Darr]

While I am sure that would maybe solve the problem, it's a poor
solution.

No, I'm sure it maybe wouldn't fix it, anyway.

MS apparently broke XP's wireless network setup wizard so it doesn't support
WPA2/AES auth/encrypt, to try to get people to move to vista.

Not only won't it import the WPA2/AES settings, when you export a WPA2/AES
network's settings to a USB drive it actually changes the settings on the
current connection from WPA2-PSK/AES to WPA-PSK/TKIP, so after exporting the
settings the WiFi card will no longer connect to the wireless network that
was just exported!

You have to go into the network's Properties on the Wireless Networks tab
and change the settings *back* to WPA2-PSK and AES manually after exporting,
just as you need to do on the XP machine to which you import those network
settings.

Too too typical of MS wizards, and certainly not much of a time saver. :-|

 

[Pedro]

MS apparently broke XP's wireless network setup wizard so it doesn't
support
WPA2/AES auth/encrypt, to try to get people to move to vista.

Not only won't it import the WPA2/AES settings, when you export a WPA2/AES
network's settings to a USB drive it actually changes the settings on the
current connection from WPA2-PSK/AES to WPA-PSK/TKIP, so after exporting
the
settings the WiFi card will no longer connect to the wireless network that
was just exported!

You have to go into the network's Properties on the Wireless Networks tab
and change the settings *back* to WPA2-PSK and AES manually after
exporting,
just as you need to do on the XP machine to which you import those
network
settings.

Interesting. When you say "... go into the network's Properties on the
Wireless Networks tab ..." - where is that? Where do I find it?

Pedro

 

[Darr]

Interesting. When you say "... go into the network's Properties on the
Wireless Networks tab ..." - where is that? Where do I find it?

Open Network Connections.
Select the wireless adapter.
Under Network Tasks on the left, click "Change settings of this connection"
or, right-click the adapter name and choose Properties.

The 'Wireless Networks' tab appears between the General and Advanced tabs.

If there is no Wireless Networks tab there, then the Wireless Zero
Configuration service is not running, most-likely because the computer has a
3rd-party connection manager installed that has taken control of the wireless
adapter.

In that case, choosing View available wireless networks from the Network
Tasks list in Network Connections should display a KB article # that tells
how to start the WZC service once you've told the 3rd-party connection
manager to stop controlling the wireless connections.
Unfortunately, I don't think the View Available ... dialog allows select and
copy, let alone 'live' links, so manually type that number directly after
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/
in the Address bar of your browser and hit Enter, to open the KB article.