Windows 2000 & WPA

Swordfish

Swordfish

Swordfish

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I have an elderly laptop that I am tidiying up for a client.

Now the thing it does not have either an ethernet or built in wifi so I have installed a PCMCIA wifi adaptor. The only problem now is that the network I need to conenct it to is WPA protected and I know there is a hotfix available for XP but is there anytihng for 2000 Pro?

Cheers
 
SCrub that - for soem reason it is connecting ok. Just assumed that becasue XP prior to SP2 did not support it that Windows 2K would not either
 
Win2k is older than WPA, and MS have always said they won't upgrade it. You'd need XP SP2 (or pre-SP2 with a patch) to have native WPA support. That said, some (many?) wifi dongles and cards come with Win2K compatible drivers and software suites that will allow you to connect via WPA-PSK. Have you tried installing the software from the driver CD, or did you just let Windows install a dll for you? Worth a shot.

If not, there are a couple of Win2k compatible apps out there that will allow you to connect to WPA (wifi managers basically). Most are paid-for, but there are a couple of free ones like THIS. I've not tried it personally (I haven't run Win2k in a few years now) but it seems to be what you're after. Good luck! :)
 
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