Trouble connecting to Wireless Network with T40

[cs1971]

Hi,

My girlfriend and I are on vacation and renting an apartment with wireless access and though she is able to connect with her much newer laptop I am having trouble. My laptop is an IBM T40 (2373), running Win2000 with the following wireless card

Cisco Systems PCI Wireless LAN Adapter #2
Driver Provider Cisco
Driver Date 4-2-2002
Driver Version 3.4.9.0

We were given what they called a username (lets say ourusername) and a password (lets say ourpassword)

After she has connected if I look at her properties it shows on the connectin tab ourusername for both the name and ssid and on the security tab is shows securty type - no authentication, encryption type WEP and dots for the network security key which presumably correspond to the password which we were given and she was prompted for when she connected.

The problem is that if I look at the properties for my wireless connection there is no place to enter the password and no mention of WEP. Is the problem that my driver is too old (forgive the lack of a question mark, and some of the other strange punctuation - on top of everything else her keyboard is laid out for spanish and I cant find a many of the punctuation marks). I should mention that I know that my hardware works as I use this card on public access points all of the time. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

-ts1971

[AIX]

Probably the connection encryption type is WPA, not WEP. To use the T4x's 802.11b Cisco card in conjuction with WPA you have to use Windows to control it; so, on the security tab select "let Windows control the card" instead of WEP - or just use Windows directly to control the card instead using Access Connection.


Hmm, now that I saw you mentioned Win2000; what I said should work with Windows XP, maybe Windows 2000 has no support for WPA, I'm not really sure..

[ryan1212]

You need the newest driver, software and firmware from cisco. That adds secure support.