Aironet 1200 and XP WEP issues

[trismegistus]

Hi

I have two Aironet 1200 AP's. I only want to prove to myself that they support WEP.

I can set up the AP. I can browse to the web setup page. I can get to the internet through the AP. In short, it works.

The trouble starts when you attempt to configure security. If I configure the AP for 40 or 128 bit WEP, it takes the config.

If I configure XP for 40 or 128 bit WEP it can no longer talk to the AP. If I go back in to check my config of XP, WEP has defaulted back to disabled. The key is still there but greyed out.

Regardless of this, I can no longer connect through or to the AP. This happens with both AP's so is not a hardware fault.

I suspect it could be XP, but in terms of unreliability I find Microsoft no worse than Cisco, so don't want to blem the wrong cause.

My Windows updates are current, and I have tried a Cisco Aironet card and a Netgear tri-band card, both yield the same result.

Does anybody know if Cisco/XP do not support WEP? I know the dialogue boxes are there for both but i've learnt that means nothing.

Am I doing something wrong with XP? All I do is choose the options for WEP in advanced properties.

Any help welcome prior to having an Aironet bonfire.

 

[tharder]

Sounds like to me you have missed something in your XP config.
We have almost a 100 AP1200's with more NIC's than I can count from a host of vendors. They're in laptops, PDAs, and handheld scanners, some using WEP only and all other combinations of WPA,TKIP,MIC,802.1x.

Are these IOS or VxWorks AP1200's??
Have you applied all the XP updates?

I'd stick to the Aironet client as a start to test with as it has a great status,site survey tool that comes with it.

 

[trismegistus]

Hi

I upgraded the access point to IOS from VX works and threw away the Aironet client, using the netgear instead and it works ok now. Thanks anyway.