win98SE and Belkin card

I have a linksys wirelessg router, a PC running windows 98SE and a
belkin f5d 7000 wirless card for the PC installed and working properly
according to the device manager. i have installed the necessary drivers
(I believe) and still the card cannot connect to the router. I had
encryption on the router set to 128 bit and was told by Belkin support
that the card was not compatible. I lowered it to 64 and still it is
not viewing any wireless networks. Short of disabling security
altogether, any suggestions?

"Mike" <techedtr@yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>I have a linksys wirelessg router

Linksys model number?

>, a PC running windows 98SE and a
>belkin f5d 7000 wirless card for the PC installed and working properly
>according to the device manager. i have installed the necessary drivers
>(I believe) and still the card cannot connect to the router. I had
>encryption on the router set to 128 bit and was told by Belkin support
>that the card was not compatible. I lowered it to 64 and still it is
>not viewing any wireless networks. Short of disabling security
>altogether, any suggestions?

First turn off encryption and see if it works.

Then, use the Hex WEP key, not the ASCII WEP key. Different
manufacturers have different creative ideas on how to convert from
ASCII to Hex.

All Linksys 802.11g router and the Belkin F5D7000 card support WPA
encryption, which is what you should be using instead of WEP. WEP is
easily cracked.

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Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

> "Mike" <techedtr@yahoo.com> hath wroth:
>
> >I have a linksys wirelessg router
>
> Linksys model number?
>
> >, a PC running windows 98SE and a
> >belkin f5d 7000 wirless card for the PC installed and working properly
> >according to the device manager.

<snip>

> All Linksys 802.11g router and the Belkin F5D7000 card support WPA
> encryption, which is what you should be using instead of WEP. WEP is
> easily cracked.

You should have read the fine print (on Belkins support site):

http://tinyurl.com/jgrjm

(F5D7000 Manual-English (WPA Addendum) P34415 6/11/2003 71.74 Kbytes)

Unfortunately WPA is only supported on Windows XP - with the Microsoft
suppicant. Some third party supplicants that will enable WPA do work
with Win98. Buffalo's Client Manager 2 (v2.1) works with F5D7010 cards
and W2K and should work with W98SE. I haven't tried it with my F5D7000
card. Also, McAfee has a supplicant that might also work with the card
and provide WPA encryption unde W98SE.