A few days ago a friend of mine came by my place. Finally I got a wireless access point so I can work everywhere in the house. Since I’m a bit paranoid I configured the AP to have MAC filtering and use WPA2. Offcourse it worked on my laptop but not on the laptop of my friend. Then the shit really hit the fan.

It started off by him using Windows XP SP2, well it’s his choice. Then we noticed that the WLAN PCMCIA card *should* support WPA2, so we tried connecting to my home network, which offcourse failed. We noticed that his Windows had no WPA2 support, but he had a fully updated Windows XP system. Finally we found, downloaded and installed the Windows XP WPA2 support patch which was released on 05-09-2004! Since nobody uses WPA2 (feel the sarcasm) it’s not important to include it in the default Windows updates…

At the end we couldn’t connect to my home network, since apparently the network card was not WPA2 compatible. But it showed me once more why I like Linux so much.