I purchased and correctly installed a realtek rtl8185 54m wireless LAN network adapter card for my home PC. If i configure my router to not use a password and have an open system it works perfectly fine, however i live in the city and i prefer people to not steal my internet therefore i put a password on it using WPA-PSK TKIP. All of the laptops in the house have no problem with this and connect perfectly fine however the desktop will not work with the password enabled, I did change the configuration on the utility so that the password was entered in the right place but it just didnt connect, it found the signal immediately and it says there is 100% signal strength. I changed it from WPA to WEP and put a passkey in and the desktop worked! which is fine but the laptops wont work with the WEP, which is also fine because i know WEP isnt nearly as secure as WPA. I downloaded all of the most recent drivers for the rtl8185 and have tried everything in my power to get it to work with WPA but to no avail, i know the rtl8185 is a piece of junk but it seems to work perfectly fine with WEP or unsecured, anyone that could help would be greatly appreciated.
Windows xp Service pack 3 is my OS.
Windows xp Service pack 3 is my OS.