Laptop wireless boggle

Neural · 16 Feb 2011 at 22:37

Greetings, I have a boggle of an issue i can't figure out.
I got a new Dell XPS, it uses the Intel wifi link 1000 BGN adapter.
I can get it connect fine wired and also wirelessly with no encryption at all on my router (Buffalo WHRG125), but as soon as I enable WEP, WPA/2 with AES or TPIK, it will just not connect, it asks for the key but just fails to connect after that.

So what are typical cuases of a adapter just not accepting encryption of any kind, and what would be potential solutions? :confused:

Many thanks, Neural.

Tealc · 17 Feb 2011 at 09:45

Updating the driver for the wireless card on an older laptop helped me get that issue resolved. If not try removing and reinstalling the driver.

Neural · 17 Feb 2011 at 17:25

Indeed, actually forgot to mention what i had tried already:
I got new drivers, made no difference, uninstalled it from device manager and let windows reinstall it, no luck there either, created a new connection without luck either.
My fone and ps3 connects wireless with encryption fine so i know its not the router.

I was thinking the homegroup thing may effect it but im not sure about that, reakky dunno what the hells cuasing it :confused:

Neural · 17 Feb 2011 at 21:04

Set the SSID manually and it worked somehow, typical computer gremlins it seems, oh well its fixed anyway