Last weekend, I was at my friend's house with my notebook together. I am using Lenovo R61 with Windows XP SP2 installed inside. While I tried to connect to his house wireless router, the system prompt out error message saying that there is unsupported security type and need me to configure the settings by myself, it has not yet even prompt out the password field to let me key in the secutity keys.
So, I tried to look into my friend's notebook that installed with Windows Vista SP1, checking out what kind of security type is he using to configure his wireless router. Finally, I found out that is this: WPA2-Personal-AES. I went back to my notebook, look into the settings and found out that my OS does not support this security type. Since this is the first time I came across this problem, I have to borrow my friend's notebook to GOOGLE for the solution.
I type in the key words "WPA2-Personal" and GOOGLE it. The results came out in a lists but I decided to go for this one.
After read the article, I knew I need to get the Hot Fix KB893357 for my OS as mentioned inside but it request me to validate my OS whether it is a Genuine Microsoft Windows. You can see it by yourself in this:
Due to I am a lazy person and I don't like to go through all this steps. I decided to download the hot fix from other website - PCWORLD.com after I GOOGLE it, and I found the hot fix is able to download from here:
It took me not more than 30 seconds to complete the download. I double click to run the downloaded hot fix file and restart the computer after the installation finished. While I go into the wireless security settings again, BINGO~! I was able to see the WPA2-Personal appear inside and I was able to surf the internet all the way out!!
You can download the hot fix from here too!
You can download the hot fix from here too!
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