On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 02:59:59 +0100, Peter Pan wrote
(in article <GcmdnR3WRtm7bUrZnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@comcast.com>):

> Sally Thompson wrote:
>> I am having a problem getting my Win98SE notebook to connect
>> wirelessly to my Netgear router, which has WPA-PSK security enabled.
>> After extensive googling and reading on this newsgroup I realise that
>> such an old OS as Win98SE is apparently incompatible with WPA-PSK.

<snip>

> You left off the one thing that will probably be the easiest, work
> absolutely and possily make sense.... Why not upgrade the OS on your laptop
> to something that is current, rather than use the obsolete 98?
>
> Much of the stuff out there nowadays specifically will not work with
> win98... Why not dump it?


Several reasons really. I use this notebook only occasionally and don't
really want to spend too much money on it. To upgrade to Windows XP would
cost me about 70 pounds sterling, whereas a PC ethernet card would be a lot
less than that (and I already have a spare cable). I also don't like XP!
Last but not least, upgrades come on CD-ROM and there's no CD-ROM drive,
which would mean downloading it from somewhere, but I can't access the
internet on the notebook at the moment because ... this is where I came
in<g>. Also, of course, until I started trying to find out why the connection
didn't work, I didn't realise that Win98 was never going to work with WPA, so
I hadn't thought there was any need to upgrade.

However, I do take your point, which was made elsewhere in this thread, and
may think more seriously about an upgrade. Thanks for the reply.



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