Hi all. I just purchased a Compaq V2630US laptop. The WiFi card (internal) only seems to work with WEP or WAP, but not WAP2. Whenever I set my router to WAP2 I cannot connect with the laptop.
My other wireless devices can all use WAP2, thus I would like to use it as long as I can get this laptop to work with it.
Is there a way to update (firmware, maybe) this laptop's WiFi (without using a PCMCIA card) so that it can communicate on a WAP2 secured wireless network?
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As for the card- it's Broadcom (probably 4318) so it uses WPA2 (AES in hardware) Upgrade to the newest drivers. If it doesn't help try to set "authentication" on the router to "open" (no EAP, LEAP or whatever). Don't remember the whole thing but sth didn't work for me with authentication set to anything other than that.
Sorry for not being to specific but I can't access my router at the moment and it's not that easy to answer on the road.
Newest drivers by HP (there are newer by Dell): http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1838816&lang=en&os=228# -
First make sure you d/l the latest wireless card driver as downloads said, then download this fix from microsoft website that adds WPA2 support to your wireless card.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...4D-E7C1-48D6-95EE-1459234F4483&displaylang=en
Before you restart your laptop, make sure you remove the preferred networks by going to control panel>network connection>right click wireless network connection & go to properties>click wireless networks tap and remove all networks in the box then restart and it should work from there.
Using WAP2 on Compaq V2630US
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Mary_Swanson, Sep 16, 2006.