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4.
Click the ‘connect’ button. The window will disappear. After a while, Windows
will inform you the connection is active.
When the connection cannot be made for some reason, the system will prompt again
(like in step 1), use then the ‘Advanced’ button and check the settings. Most common
reasons:
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Shared key typed wrongly.
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Need to enable ‘Shared Key Access control’ in the advanced setting to make
the connection. In general, match the settings of both ends of the connection
closely to make it work.
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Signal strength too low, move closer to the other station.
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Interference. Try to connect again.
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The 802.1x authentication must be usually switched off as this is only used in
some corporate networks.
7.3.6
Wireless Protected Access (WPA)
The Wireless Protected Access (WPA) standard is a more secure version of WEP.
When planning to use WPA, keep the following in mind:
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First test the network without WPA to know for sure all hardware is working
properly.
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WPA only works in infrastructure networks.
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WPA requires a WPA compatible access point or access point router.
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All planned network stations need to support WPA, its not recommended to
mix WPA and WEP secured computers.
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For Windows XP SP1, you need to download an update from
www.microsoft.com
to enable WPA. Previous versions of Windows XP first
need to be updated to SP1 prior to installing the WPA update. When you don’t
want to update Windows, use the utility method (see chapter 7.3)
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There are 2 versions of WPA: A corporate version, just called WPA and a
simpler home version, called WPA-PSK. Use WPA-PSK as the corporate
version requires a special authentication server in your network such as
RADIUS.
Setup:
1)
The card will find the network. Click the alert balloon in the corner of the
screen. A new window like figure 11 will show.
2)
Fill in the same key as used when setting up the access point.
3)
Click the ‘connect’ button. The connection should be made now.
When the connection cannot be made or there cannot be any data transferred:
4) Restart
Windows.
5)
Open the wireless connection windows by clicking the alert in the corner of the
screen. Figure 11 will be displayed. If no alert was shown, follow the steps 1
till 5 from chapter 7.3.3. In a WPA capable Windows XP version, the screen
should look like figure 13, not figure 9a.
6)
Click the ‘Advanced’ button.
7)
Select ‘WPA-PSK’ as authentication.
8)
Select ‘TKIP’ as data encryption.
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