WinXP Home client can't connect to WPA network

3 Apr 2005 10:11 PM

Michelle Dady

I have a WinXP Home client that will not connect to a WPA protected network.
When I try to join the network I get the following error message:

"Windows is unable to connect to the selected network...."

I have tried multiple wireless network cards in this machine and have gotten
the same error. I have tried updating the drivers on the cards as well with
no avail. If I try the same cards on another XP machine I can join the
network just fine. I am running SP2 on this box as well.

Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

22 Apr 2005 4:09 PM

jwh20

There is no "generic" problem with XP Home that prevents it from
connecting to a WPA protected wireless network. I have several XP Home
SP2 machines connecting to an access point using WPA.

I'm not sure what the problem is in this case, but I don't think it's
related to XP Home.

25 Apr 2005 7:19 PM

Harry Bates

Are you absolutely sure that both cards have hardware\driver support for
WPA. Alot of cards do not.

-Harry Bates

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"Michelle Dady" <Michelle D***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2257BDEA-C51D-4658-90F4-94AB8CA9F14B@microsoft.com...
> I have a WinXP Home client that will not connect to a WPA protected
network.
> When I try to join the network I get the following error message:
>
> "Windows is unable to connect to the selected network...."
>
> I have tried multiple wireless network cards in this machine and have
gotten
> the same error. I have tried updating the drivers on the cards as well
with
> no avail. If I try the same cards on another XP machine I can join the
> network just fine. I am running SP2 on this box as well.
>
> Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!