WEP Network Setup

[Guest]

Hello,
I have a problem with my wireless setup my card is a realtek RTL8187 and the
router is a netgear DGB111GTUK. The problem is the two XP machines that
conect to WEP shared key work fine, but my vista machine cannot connect even
though it's the same key ! The message i get is Diagnose connection or
Connect to diffrent network. Can anyone guide me in the right direction to
cure the problem.

 

[Eric Cross [MVP]]

Hello dtstoney,

First, have you tried temporarily disabling the encryption on the router to
see if the Vista machine will connect? If it successfully connects with
encryption disabled, then you know its your encryption settings.

 

[Guest]

Hello Eric,
The encryption on the router was disabled to start with and all 3 machines
were connecting. Since the router has been set to WEP with 128 bit encryption
the vista machine refuses to connect. I do belive as you say could be the
vista machine's encryption method. the vista settings are identical to the XP
setting so it should work.Any Ideas?

 

[Eric Cross [MVP]]

Do you have a USB flash drive? If so, you could try this. I've written a
page on how to transfer your wireless settings from XP to Vista.

http://ecross.mvps.org/howto/add_vista.htm

--
Eric Cross
Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 

[Guest]

I had a similar problem with a Realtek integrated wi-fi (8185 I think??).
Anyways, the solution was to force a driver upgrade by downloading the
install package from the Realtek website. Vista thinks it has the newest
version, but it doesn't. Fixed the problem right away.

Hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

Hi Bill,
Thanks for the info but this didn't solve the problem. I used both vista's
drivers and the realtek's drivers but no joy.

 

[Guest]

Hiya Eric,
Intresing soution but i'm afraid i don't have a flash drive. So that is
ruled out. Sorry !!
i did try bill's reply but that didn't work either. really stumped by this
probblem.
it seems i'm stuck with a cable for the time being.

 

[Guest]

Ok i'm half way to solving the probblem, i rolled back the drivers for the
wireless hub, and now can connect but after say 15-20 minutes the conection
says " conected but with limited access" the newest drivers give me hardware
issues but older driver only this probblem. Any Clues?

 

[Guest]

hiya rondo422,
Looks like from alot of messing about if you use the realtek drivers that
came with vista you get no probblems, if you update of download newer drivers
vista hates it. Also noticed every time you install a driver successfully the
card number goes up by 1 (i'm now at card 16 ?? but only have 1 card go
figure). Once i got the driver working you have to get you card to talk to
the router to do this find the network and click on it, if your router has a
key it will ask you for it. if you do it any other way then your back to
square one. it seems to be a probblem with vista network setup looks like
Microsoft need to look into a cure for this.