Adapters with WPA support for Win98 SE?

Hi

I have an old laptop with Win98 SE which I want to setup for my father,
primarily to surf the net/emails etc while he's living with us. I was
able to set it up with a D-link DWL G630 wireless adapter. The only
problem is it seems the adapter just supports WEP security which means
I have to now switch my router back to use WEP security as well as
switch to WEP on my other adapters.

I was just wondering

1. if its possible to use the DWL G630 on Win98 SE with anything
stronger than WEP 128 bit?
2. if not, which adapters provide say WPA with Win98 SE (I'm assuming
here that Win98 SE itself does provide WPA support)
3. any other alternative configurations which will allow me to have
better than WEP security on my wireless network?

Thanks in advance,
HT

wet_undies

Hi
If the Laptop has USB you might be lucky with an 802.11g USB, it would work
at low speed since the Laptop's USB is probably USB1.1 but it might support
WPA.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"wet_undies" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have an old laptop with Win98 SE which I want to setup for my father,
> primarily to surf the net/emails etc while he's living with us. I was
> able to set it up with a D-link DWL G630 wireless adapter. The only
> problem is it seems the adapter just supports WEP security which means
> I have to now switch my router back to use WEP security as well as
> switch to WEP on my other adapters.
>
> I was just wondering
>
> 1. if its possible to use the DWL G630 on Win98 SE with anything
> stronger than WEP 128 bit?
> 2. if not, which adapters provide say WPA with Win98 SE (I'm assuming
> here that Win98 SE itself does provide WPA support)
> 3. any other alternative configurations which will allow me to have
> better than WEP security on my wireless network?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> HT
>

wet_undies <> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have an old laptop with Win98 SE which I want to setup for my father,
> primarily to surf the net/emails etc while he's living with us. I was
> able to set it up with a D-link DWL G630 wireless adapter. The only
> problem is it seems the adapter just supports WEP security which means
> I have to now switch my router back to use WEP security as well as
> switch to WEP on my other adapters.
>
> I was just wondering
>
> 1. if its possible to use the DWL G630 on Win98 SE with anything
> stronger than WEP 128 bit?

Check out if this particular card has driver support for Windows 98

http://www.dlink.com/products/suppor...&sec=0#drivers

If so, you then need a supplicant that supports Windows 98. There are
two that Eye know of. One is McAffees, you can find here

http://www.wirelesssecuritycorp.com/...PAAssistant.do

(It's free, so do some searching, they make you look for it).

The other one is Buffalo's ClientManager2 (v2.1). Unfortunately, Buffalo
has upgraded their client manager to ClientManager3 and that doesn't
work with no-Buffalo adapters. The .zip file is 2.2 MB.

> 2. if not, which adapters provide say WPA with Win98 SE (I'm assuming
> here that Win98 SE itself does provide WPA support)

You will run into the same problem, no supplicant.

> 3. any other alternative configurations which will allow me to have
> better than WEP security on my wireless network?

Use a cable

wet_undies wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an old laptop with Win98 SE which I want to setup for my father,
> primarily to surf the net/emails etc while he's living with us. I was
> able to set it up with a D-link DWL G630 wireless adapter. The only
> problem is it seems the adapter just supports WEP security which means
> I have to now switch my router back to use WEP security as well as
> switch to WEP on my other adapters.
>
> I was just wondering
>
> 1. if its possible to use the DWL G630 on Win98 SE with anything
> stronger than WEP 128 bit?
> 2. if not, which adapters provide say WPA with Win98 SE (I'm assuming
> here that Win98 SE itself does provide WPA support)
> 3. any other alternative configurations which will allow me to have
> better than WEP security on my wireless network?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> HT
>
I used a 3Com Officeconnect PC card adapter with Win98SE on a 5 year old
Toshiba Satellite connnecting to a Linksys router with WPA. Worked well.
Obviously you have to install the 3Com utility as Win98 has no
equivalent of XP's Wireless Zero Config. Please verify this with 3Com
support before spending any money.

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/d...=3CRG PC10075

John Coode <> wrote:

> wet_undies wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have an old laptop with Win98 SE which I want to setup for my father,
> > primarily to surf the net/emails etc while he's living with us. I was
> > able to set it up with a D-link DWL G630 wireless adapter. The only
> > problem is it seems the adapter just supports WEP security which means
> > I have to now switch my router back to use WEP security as well as
> > switch to WEP on my other adapters.
> >
> > I was just wondering
> >
> > 1. if its possible to use the DWL G630 on Win98 SE with anything
> > stronger than WEP 128 bit?
> > 2. if not, which adapters provide say WPA with Win98 SE (I'm assuming
> > here that Win98 SE itself does provide WPA support)
> > 3. any other alternative configurations which will allow me to have
> > better than WEP security on my wireless network?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > HT
> >
> I used a 3Com Officeconnect PC card adapter with Win98SE on a 5 year old
> Toshiba Satellite connnecting to a Linksys router with WPA. Worked well.
> Obviously you have to install the 3Com utility as Win98 has no
> equivalent of XP's Wireless Zero Config. Please verify this with 3Com
> support before spending any money.

Supplicants from other adapter manufacturers do sometimes work. There's
only one way to find out, download and try...