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Can't find wireless network

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by Glyn5, 2008/07/19.

  1. 2008/07/19
    Glyn5

    Glyn5 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi

    Hopefully someone might be able to help with this problem.

    I recently got a Fujitsu Siemens S6010 laptop running xp proff 2002 and can't get the wireless to link with my orange livebox. Wired its no problem and my flatmates laptop works fine with the wireless.

    It has an intersil PRISM Wireless LAN PCI card with driver version 1.7.296.0 which as far as I can tell seems to work ok, it can detect neighbouring wireless connections but not my livebox!

    The livebox has intermittently appeared on the list but once auth code and paring stages have been completed it seems just to timeout.

    If anyone could help that would be great.

    Thanks
    Glyn
     
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  2. 2008/07/19
    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    What model wifi card? (Intersil Prism is the chipset manufacturer.) It could be the card you have is only capable of WEP encryption and the network uses WPA. If your card actually says it's an Intersil card then for sure it's an older card and does not support WPA.
     
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  4. 2008/07/20
    Glyn5

    Glyn5 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    Thanks for replying, as far as I can tell it appears it just says it's an Intersil card so might well not be WPA compatable. I guess I need to check before anymore impulse ebay buys!

    Thanks anyway

    Glyn
     
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  5. 2008/07/22
    TonyT

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    You could try to locate newer updated drivers for the card. Many older cards have updated drivers that support WPA. As far as I know, your card is a 80211b crad, thus its max speed is 11 mbps. New drivers won't upgrade the card to 80211g (54 mbps), but they may have WPA support.
     
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