User's Manual

Wireless Mini-PCI Card Version: 0.9
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4 Configure WPA
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the security features
of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is designed to work with
existing Wi-FI products that have been enabled with WEP. WPA provides improved
data encryption through the Temporal Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the
keys using a hashing algorithm and by adding an integrity-checking feature which
makes sure that keys haven’t been tampered with.
Note: WPA can only be used in Windows XP and must have the WPA patch
installed. If you do not have the patch installed, you may download and install
Q815485 (WPA Patch) from www.microsoft.com/security.
In order to configure WPA settings for the Client Utility, you must first enable the
Windows based wireless network configuration in the Control Panel by following the
steps below:
1. Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel.
2. Double click on the Network Connections icon.
3. Right-click on the wireless network connection for the PC card, and then
select Properties. The icon may look similar to the image below.
4. After you click on Properties, the Wireless Network Connection
Properties window will appear, as the image depicts below: