WPA Oddity

[Richard G. Harper]

(Apologies for the crosspost, not 100% sure where to put this one)

I have a MN-700 broadband wireless router which is used with a number of
different notebook and desktop adapters. Until recently I've been using WEP
for encryption, but recently tried using WPA as I finally had all
WPA-compliant hardware.

The problem is that my wife's system (HP Pavilion ze5300 notebook, Windows
XP Home Edition, fully patched and updated) won't restore the connection on
resuming from standby while using WPA. I tried a D-Link G630 card and a
Motorola WN825G card - both refuse to re-connect when resuming from standby.
Repair does not work, nor does disabling and re-enabling the connection.
Only a reboot restores it.

What's strange about this is that if I turn off WPA and return to WEP, both
PCMCIA cards work perfectly. On resuming from standby both work just fine -
no problems.

 

[William P.N. Smith]

The problem is that my wife's system (HP Pavilion ze5300 notebook, Windows
XP Home Edition, fully patched and updated) won't restore the connection on
resuming from standby while using WPA.

That may be the same problem I was having recently, there's something
not quite right with WinXP Home Wifi...

 

[Joe]

I have had the same experience. Basically it is like the syncronization of
the WPA key gets off or corrupted when you enter standby. Also the same
type of key error occurs when you drop connection due to interference such
as 2.4G phones. If you look I be you are getting the "Incorrect Security
Key" error coming out of standby.

I also would like to use WPA but currently use WEP for the same reasons as
the others here.

If anyone can fix this, I'm buying!
Regards,
Joe

 

[Bill Sanderson]

What router or access point device is involved in your situation?

 

[Joe]

The router is the MN700 used as access point and router.

 

[Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows]]

This is going to need to be fixed by a firmware upgrade. I've sent the
info in to the hardware team. I don't know when there will be an
upgrade, but one is going to be needed for XP SP2 compatibility..

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks Barb--that was exactly the exchange I was hoping to prompt!

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I believe we've had this conversation in another thread, but:

I believe this is a bug--perhaps in the MN-700 firmware. My understanding
is that this needs to await a firmware rev for the MN-700, which I
understand will eventually be forthcoming.

Although I own an MN-700, I am embarassed to say I don't know what the
support agreement says--if you can call Microsoft on this one, without
spending $, I recommend doing so--I believe they'll bear out what I'm
saying, and maybe you can relay that back to the groups here.