"jayjwa" <jayjwa@vdrl.ath.cx.invalid> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.06.16.05.30.48.588378@vdrl.ath.cx.in valid...


> I just spent 4 hours trying to help someone get their Windows XP to
> connect to a wireless router and then get their laptop and the router all
> talking WPA. It was anything but easy: I kept getting "Wizards",
> hand-holding this, training wheels that, when all I wanted was to set WPA
> on the wireless network.


You did it wrong then.. for future reference..

log into the router and set WPA like you would with linux.
Turn on XP
It will then say wireless networks have been found, do you want to connect?
choose the one you have just set
enter the key
done.

The only way to make it harder is if you hide the ssid which is pointless
and just makes life harder.

> In Linux, that's like one command on a command
> line. But there I was, awash in a river of GUI and menus up the wha-zoo.
> The laptop auto-connects alright - to someone else's network! Let's hope
> they didn't mind too much.

So change it so it doesn't.
One setting, no wizards needed.
You can even do it using the command line if you want.

Don't blame XP because you don't know what you are doing, just as you
wouldn't want someone blaming linux if they didn't know what they were
doing.