Wpa2 issues windows xp

The easiest method is to update to SP3, as this provides WPA network access natively, with zero configuration and no additional software installation required. Changing to WEP is not recommended, as it is easily hackable. There are tons of tutorials online anyone can follow and crack your password and use your internet connection for free.

However, in cases where updating your laptop to SP3 is not possible, or this can be used. Another probable cause for this error message and being unable to connect to WPA secured wireless access points is lack of support for these encryption protocols, by the hardware network chipset. Older chipsets may not support WPA and WPA 2, search online for your network chipset technical specs to know if this is the case.

In this case, the only solution for you is to upgrade the WLAN chipset possible on desktop PCs fitted with Wifi cards, not very viable on a laptop or change your encryption method to WEP. Please refresh the list of available networks, and try to connect again. The network was visible to the laptop, but on trying to connect, the above error would come up. The error message is not very helpful, as the network was obviously in range and my laptop and smartphone both showed full signal strength.

Amazingly, even a service tech could not fix the issue. After much troubleshooting and trial-and-error, I found that the issue is caused by Windows XP itself. SP2 supports WPA2 after installing the necessary software. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums.

Sign in to vote. Wednesday, July 30, AM. Ok, I uninstalled the wireless card and reinstalled it in Device Manager and all the WPA2 encryption modes are now visible. Thanks for looking and hope this helps someone else. Wednesday, July 30, PM. I can think of the following possibilities: 1. Thanks for your response. I can address each of your thoughts easily. I updated the wireless card driver and all other hardware drivers before running SP3. No antivirus software was installed at the time I installed SP3.

I'm pretty much a network noob so I have no idea what's going wrong. Right now it's stuck on "validating identity" when I try to connect to the network. So far in my quest to solve this problem, I have: 1. Downloaded Service Pack 3. Tried disabiling Authentication for the network. From reading around forums I've learned that apparently after downloading Service Pack 3, I should be able to choose 'WPA2' as an option for "Network Authentication" on my Network's properties page.

It still isn't showing up for me though. Since my desktop can't connect to the internet, I couldn't download Service Pack 3 directly so I downloaded it on another computer, put it on a flash drive, and then uploaded it to the desktop. I'm not sure if this could be the problem or not, but if it makes a difference, I can verify on my Computer's properties page that I am running Service Pack 3.

Is it possible that this card does not support WPA2? How do I tell? Does anyone have any advice? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. Joined Jan 23, Messages 12, So WPA-2 wouldn't show up.