WPA-PSK supplicant for Win98

I have an older P3 (Win98) box for the kids to pound on. I have it
streamlined, simplified, tweaked out, ect, to be as kid-proof as possible.
"CD"'s are kept on a file server as .ISO's, so it needs to talk on the LAN.
Its in a position where running cable wouldn't be practical.

Its using a D-Link DWL-AG530 (PCI) wireless card. It doesn't look like MS
ever, or will ever, put out an 802.11x (WPA-PSK) supplicant for Win98.as
they did for XP.

D-Link has one, but it is for their DWL-G520. I gave it a try, but it
doesn't seem to work with the DWL-AG530. It install just fine, is visable
in network properties, but doesn't want to bind with the DWL-AG530. It
doesn't even appear when you attempt to manually bind it either. Haven't
dug into specs, but my speculation is that the DWL-AG530 may be a different
chipset (Athereos?) than the DWL-G520 -- even though the model numbers are
so similiar. Oddly enough though, this supplicant does worth with more than
a few Linksys cards under Win98! (In fact, I found this applicant from a
deja search and discovering a post from someone reporting it worked with
their Linksys card.)

(This is a D-Link site.)
http://203.126.164.140/FAQ/view.asp?...ion=supplicant

Any others out there?

TIA

"Eric" wrote in message...

> D-Link has one, but it is for their DWL-G520. I gave it a try, but it
> doesn't seem to work with the DWL-AG530. It install just fine, is visable
> in network properties, but doesn't want to bind with the DWL-AG530. It
> doesn't even appear when you attempt to manually bind it either. Haven't
> ...

Well, I'll be damned. Its working now.

I was still deja'ing while starting this thread and found a message
regarding "strong" passphrases not working.

Went through mine and changed out some characters that I thought "might" be
giving a problem (for no real reason), such as .'s , ~'s , ü's (u with
umlaut), ect...

Now it works. Go figure.

Passphrase still has ^'s , |'s , `'s, ect. Maybe it umlaut that it didn't
like (?). The Germans will be upset.

In Network Properties, the 802.1x protocol (WPA-PSK supplicant) still
doesn't show itself binded with the card, but the card does show itself
binded with 802.1x.

Strange. Oh well, it works. :^)

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:36:32 GMT, "Eric" <none@nospam.never> wrote:

>Haven't
>dug into specs, but my speculation is that the DWL-AG530 may be a different
>chipset (Athereos?) than the DWL-G520 -- even though the model numbers are
>so similiar

DWL-AG530 uses Atheros AR5212 chipset.

DWL-G520 uses Atheros AR5002 chipset.

DWL-G520+ uses TI ACX111 chipset.

Any simularily in model numbers is purely coincidental and probably a
conspiracy on the part of marketing to confuse the customers.

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