Vista and WPA connectivity problems

Posted: 12-26-2007, 01:05 AM

Pawel Pabich

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Hi,

I have a wireless router which I've been using for last 3 years with
no problem. My 3 years old HP laptop with XP on board can connect to
it using WPA seamlessly. Recently I bought a new HP laptop which runs
Vista and I can not force it to connect to the router using WPA. I get
the following error message:
"Wireless authentication failed because of a timeout". If I change the
protection mode to None or WEP then Vista does not have any problem.
For obvious reason I'm not going to resign from WPA.
I've seen a few post about this problem but no solution. Is there any
chance I can run Vista network stack in an XP compatibility mode?

thanks

Pawel

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Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)

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Re: Vista and WPA connectivity problems

Posted: 12-26-2007, 02:50 AM

Check if there is a new firmware for the outré or a new driver for the NIC.
Or this link may help,

Vista can use WEP but WPA
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...pic.php?t=2643

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"Pawel Pabich" <pawel.pabich@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a wireless router which I've been using for last 3 years with
> no problem. My 3 years old HP laptop with XP on board can connect to
> it using WPA seamlessly. Recently I bought a new HP laptop which runs
> Vista and I can not force it to connect to the router using WPA. I get
> the following error message:
> "Wireless authentication failed because of a timeout". If I change the
> protection mode to None or WEP then Vista does not have any problem.
> For obvious reason I'm not going to resign from WPA.
> I've seen a few post about this problem but no solution. Is there any
> chance I can run Vista network stack in an XP compatibility mode?
>
> thanks
>
> Pawel

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Pawel Pabich

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Re: Vista and WPA connectivity problems

Posted: 12-26-2007, 03:01 PM

Thanks for info. I've tried 4 different approaches and it still does
not work and I get the same error message. I'm not really keen on
changing my router as it works with XP perfectly fine. The
communication is based on a standard thus I don't really get why Vista
has this problem. Do you know what might cause the problem?

thanks

Pawel

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Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)

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Re: Vista and WPA connectivity problems

Posted: 12-26-2007, 03:44 PM

If you have installed the latest firmware for the router, you may try to
install Microsoft update. Please post back with the results.

Vista Update and SPVista Update and SP. Can't access the Internet after
installed Update The Update improves the performance and reliability of
Vista. Windows Vista Update and ...
www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistaupdate.htm

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"Pawel Pabich" <pawel.pabich@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for info. I've tried 4 different approaches and it still does
> not work and I get the same error message. I'm not really keen on
> changing my router as it works with XP perfectly fine. The
> communication is based on a standard thus I don't really get why Vista
> has this problem. Do you know what might cause the problem?
>
> thanks
>
> Pawel
>

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Pawel Pabich

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Re: Vista and WPA connectivity problems

Posted: 01-04-2008, 12:15 AM

I installed all of them and nothing has improved. At this stage I'm
going to call HP because this is going beyond a joke. Thanks for help.

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Barb Bowman

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Re: Vista and WPA connectivity problems

Posted: 01-04-2008, 11:59 AM

what NIC is in the computer and what router? Does WPA-AES work or
WPA2?

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:15:44 -0800 (PST), Pawel Pabich
<pawel.pabich@gmail.com> wrote:

>I installed all of them and nothing has improved. At this stage I'm
>going to call HP because this is going beyond a joke. Thanks for help.

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