I have not been able to get WPA to work between my TP T41 internal wifi
and an Actiontec DSL gateway. WEP is working without problems.
Genmac 2.00 & XWLAN 3.00 installed without issues and the correct
driver for the Intel 2100 miniPCI card is loaded.
I copied the profile for WEP to another WPA profile and changed the
security settings only to 'WiFi Protected Access (WPA2-PSK)' and
entered a preshared key. I then changed the DLS gateway to WPA with
the same key. When I try to activate the WPA profile I usually get an
icon with red bars indicating that it is connected but out of range.
The T41 is 2 feet from the DSL gateway. Occasionally I get an icon
with green bars indicating a strong signal. In either case, I cannot
communicate over wifi with WPA enabled even though the routing and IP
addresses are correctly assigned.
I did try 'WiFi Protected Access (WPA-PSK)' but just got a 'searching
for connection' icon.
Other issues:
1) I am occasionally getting a trap e when trying to activate the WPA
profiles. This may or may not be related to the fact that I have
Object Desktop installed as, once, the system trapped when I opened the
Tab Launchbar with the WEP profile active.
2) I still need to use a script when switching between a wifi and a
wired connection. This is because when using the method described in
the manual, the configuration for lan0(1) are not completely deleted
when switching to lan1(0)
3) Netbios over TCP/IP does not start is I follow the instructions for
configuring setup.cmd for networks that switch between a wifi and wired
connection. The instructions state that the wifi lan configuration
should not be in setup.cmd, rather left to XWLAN. I have found that I
need both LAN0 (wifi) and LAN1 (wired) configured. I put in a 'dummy'
ip address for LAN1, so that both subnets are present when the system
starts. This may be needed because, in config.sys, a tcpbeui protocol
is run after the call to run setup.cmd:
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