#Apple airport utility windows xp driver#
Are you using XP's wireless handling or a proprietary Dell wireless handler? (If it's a Dell handler, later on down the road I'm probably going to bug you with more questions) Could you go into the Dell's driver setup for the wireless card and post all the driver settings? (since it's a dual-band card, it may be trying to force different standards than the Airport can transmit-you'll want to set settings as flexible as possible ("auto" or "and" settings)) Finally, have you tried disabling WEP security on the base station and checked if the Dell can hook-up? (we might as well start there) I'm going to go search for what chipset Dell uses on their card because each of the 2 major ones have their own WEP key quirks. Which base station is it? Graphite, Snow? Have you updated the firmware from Apple's site? (This solved a few issues) Do you have Shared or Open WEP keys setup on the Base Station? (Make sure it's Open first and then once we've got that working, you can set it to Shared) The fact that the Dell sees the station means it's strictly a WEP issue. We'll fix this, no problem Since I wouldn't wish this on anyone else, I'm determined to get this working for both of you. What's happening: The wireless connection to the base station is seen by the XP machine, but the AirPort network is not listed in Available Networks, nor is the XP box actually communicating with the base station. My housemate's XP laptop has been supplied with the hex WEP kay and the network name, so that it should auto-connect to the base station. The base station is using 40-bit WEP encryption and is set up not to broadcast the network name, and the AirPort base station insists on distributing IP addresses in order to use the PPPoE DSL connection. Here's my setup: My Snow Airport base station is plugged directly into the Verizon-supplied DSL modem. I don't think my friend and his wife are even using WEP encryption. Okay, I and another friend of mine are having the exact same problem-trying to add a Win XP machine to an Airport network, and the Win machine sees the base station but will not connect to the network-and we've both already done the WEP hex key thing.Īny other tips? This is driving me nuts I really do want to share my DSL with my housemate via AirPort, and my friend would really like his wife's Win XP laptop to be able to access their cable connection, but we and my housemate's brother have all pounded on this to no avail. (remember 40-bit key in Apple is usually referred to as a 64bit key by everyone else and that you want to enter a hex key and not an ASCII key in XP (it'll be exactly 10 symbols of 0-9 or a-f) If you are using 128bit, it'll be longer.) Good luck. Type that in as your key on your Dell and it'll be able to connect. It will give you the hex key translation that it's using for the passphrase.
To get the hex key, go to the admin utility for the airport base station and click on the padlock.
Now other airport cards have no issue with this (because they take the passphrase you enter and do the exact same hex translation before responding to the base station's challenge) but any other maker's wireless card will have problems because you can't enter the passphrase- you need the hex key. It actually gets hashed into hex by the Airport and transmits that as the key. It uses a static open WEP key that appears to be a normal ASCII word, but the kicker is it's not.
I'm laughing so hard right now because I just solved the exact problem you're facing after two weeks of trying to come up with something.
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