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Elahrairah · 2009-10-21 11:54 pm

Hello fellow dual-booters,
Over the summer I upgraded to a Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. For reasons to grisly and unpleasant to discuss here, I've been trying to get it to dual boot into a copy of windows XP that I own. Things went swimmingly with Boot Camp, but while in windows my iMac refuses to connect to the internet. I've downloaded all of the drivers from the iMac disk, and the computer senses the Wifi, but never connects.

Any ideas?

sturner · 2009-10-22 12:38 am

Are you using WEP or WPA? what is your wireless router?

dv · 2009-10-22 1:48 am

I was a little confused at first; so here's my dumb mistake that I do not in any way intend to imply that you also made.

I selected WPA instead of WPA-PSK (pre-shared-key). It wouldn't let me put in my password, so I assumed it was kind of driver conflict or something (WPA wasn't always supported on Windows XP, although SP2 and later supposedly do, it still varies from driver to driver and card to card.)

After about half an hour of fruitless googling, I looked at the configuration window again, facepalmed, selected WPA-PSK, entered my password and was connected. (I was in the "advanced" screen because my SSID is hidden and I had to enter it manually.)

As far as I can remember, I've never seen OS X make a differentiation between WPA and WPA-PSK, so... yeah, totally didn't register.

Elahrairah · 2009-10-22 8:33 pm

Sad to say, I ran that check and it doesn't seem to be the problem. The network is WPA, and the setting is set to WPA-PSK. All it's asking for is my password, and I'm certain that I'm putting the right one in.

Windows opens a 'trying to connect' dialogue box and waits to receive an address from the network. Apparently it never gets it.

I share the wireless router with six guys in the house, and one roommate said he remembered something about running out of addresses if the router is set to a certain mode... but nothing firm.
Thanks for the help, though.

Random User · 2009-10-22 10:29 pm

Check to make sure that the router's DHCP settings are allowing enough IP addresses to be issued.

You should probably set it at 20 or so if you have 6+ people living in the house with multiple devices each.

Random User · 2009-10-22 10:30 pm

Also check your wireless MAC address restrictions.

Could be that your MAC address is not on the "Allow" list and therefore is not being issued an IP address or a connection to the network.

mrreet2001 · 2009-10-23 7:44 am

does it work on the OSX side?

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#1 2009-10-21 11:54 pm

Windows XP no wifi for iMac?

#2 2009-10-22 12:38 am

Re: Windows XP no wifi for iMac?

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Re: Windows XP no wifi for iMac?

#4 2009-10-22 8:33 pm

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#5 2009-10-22 10:29 pm

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#6 2009-10-22 10:30 pm

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#7 2009-10-23 7:44 am

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