Using WPA on Linksys WRT54G?

[ITASOR]

So, I finally got tired of having a no-security wireless access point in my house, so I set up WPA. Everything worked good. Set up my iBook, DELL, sister's Averatec laptop.

My dad comes home and turns on his Toshiba Satellite laptop and it says something about it being encrypted. It gives the password field, and security type menu. The menu only has WEP and something else...no WPA.

Am I stuck using WEP (hate using the ID numbers, I like how WPA uses whatever you make)? I'll probably go back to using nothing *sigh*.

 

[mkrishnan]

My dad comes home and turns on his Toshiba Satellite laptop and it says something about it being encrypted. It gives the password field, and security type menu. The menu only has WEP and something else...no WPA.

Lots of Windows hardware does not support WPA...so it's definitely possible. But what's the something else on the list?

 

[OutThere]

WPA can sometimes have other strange names that companies seem to think are special and cool. Though I can't recall any of them now, I have heard a few. You should check the other item on the list.

 

[Danksi]

The menu only has WEP and something else...no WPA.

Have you checked out the latest drivers on the Toshiba support website?

I had the WEP only problem with our 2 year old HP laptop. I had to go to the HP support site and install the latest wireless drivers, to give me WPA.

 

[ITASOR]

Thanks guys, I'll definitely look into upgrading the drivers for the card. I know he runs Windows update a lot, so I guess that isn't updating the drivers for that.

I gotta wait until he gets home to get the model number...then I'll look.

 

[IanF0729]

I know that the initial release of XP didn't support WPA encryption. Make sure you're running SP2.

That's what happened to a friend of mine.

Although you said the computer has Windows update run on it a lot, so that may not be your issue.

My roommate has a Toshiba Satellite and it works well with WPA encryption.