Can G40 hook up to WPA wireless?

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ffod · #1 Post by **ffod** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:22 am

I just gave one of my salesman a G40 laptop (he had a toshiba) and he can't seem to hook up his wireless at home. He can hook up at all of our branches (we use wep keys) but I guess he uses WPA at home (I've never used WPA) and I can't seem to find a setting in access connections or Windows. He is running XP Pro. Can anyone tell me if it can be done? He could do it on his toshiba, now he's yelling because the IBM doesn't see it.
Thanks for all help!
Annette

kajencik · #2 Post by **kajencik** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:38 am

The G40 seems to originally have two wireless cards, as listed here:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:G40

Have you one of them inside?

I have only experience with the intel 2100 card, but there it was a driver issue there, the driver from 2003 didn't have the WPA support, but after upgrading to the latest driver it works. Do you have the latest drivers installed?

ffod · #3 Post by **ffod** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:56 am

It has this card: IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Adapter III

I remember searching the wesite (I had to put in a new hard drive) and I think the date on the driver was 2002 even though the download date was 2003.

So, if that "was" the latest driver will I have to get an external card?

ajkula66 · #4 Post by **ajkula66** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:30 am

You can actually replace the card with a/b or a/b/g card, I'd tend to say that both of these would be Atheros/Phillips, and they shouldn't give you an 1802 error.

ffod · #5 Post by **ffod** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:46 am

Where do I buy the internal cards, direct from Lenovo?

#6 Post by **jdhurst** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:12 am

ffod wrote:It has this card: IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Adapter III

I remember searching the wesite (I had to put in a new hard drive) and I think the date on the driver was 2002 even though the download date was 2003.

So, if that "was" the latest driver will I have to get an external card?

My experience with IBM High Rate Wireless cards is that they do not support WPA. Like the other poster, I also recommend the IBM 11 a/b/g card. This is what I use and it has been excellent.
... JDH

kajencik · #7 Post by **kajencik** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:20 am

I don't recommend buying a new card as it would be quite expensive I think, try the marketplace here, or www.ebay.com to find used minipci IBM card and ensure that it supports WPA.

Also, you may try as I did, getting a stock intel 2200bg or any other and aplying the no-1802 patch, as listed in the folowing link, it should work on a G40.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... twork_card

But it modifies bios, so it's a risk.

ffod · #8 Post by **ffod** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:47 am

Ok, thanks for all of your help!

90base · #9 Post by **90base** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:35 am

Just have him set his wireless router at home to WEP instead of WPA

ffod · #10 Post by **ffod** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:27 am

I already tried that! That would have made things so simple. I actually found a Linksys A/G card lying around here not being used. I'm just going to tell him if he wants to use WPA, he will have to use the external card.

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