WPA and Wireless NIC on Ricohs

[Parlett316]

Hi,

I think the Savin/ricoh etc wireless cards only support upto 128bits of encryption on their version of WPA. The wireless router might use 256bits and that is the reason why it doesnt work... try another wireless router if you possibly can otherwise, you dont have another other option other than to go wired or use WEP.

Figured it out, the signal was not strong enough. That was pretty much it!

[scoobysteve]

thats good to hear... with my scenario, i could connect with WEP and no security without a problem. The MFD was in the same room as the wireless router but still no connection when going WPA (both AES and TKIP).

[Parlett316]

thats good to hear... with my scenario, i could connect with WEP and no security without a problem. The MFD was in the same room as the wireless router but still no connection when going WPA (both AES and TKIP).

I connected a Savin C2020 with the 802.11b TypeH card to both a Linksys 802.11g WAP and a Netgear 802.11g router using WPA-PSK with TKIP.

Are you getting any errors at the machine? Can you see the signal strength?

[scoobysteve]

Funny that as the wireless router giving me trouble was a netgear (not sure which model now). While connected via WEP and no security, my signal strength was close to 100% (wireless router and MFD about 3m apart). just would not work with WPA method.