Can't connect to wireless

[Red Squirrel]

I just bought a new Dlink WBR-2310 for someone I know and configured it to use AES and changed the default admin password - all the very basic security stuff.

It's sitting literally 1 feet from my PC, yet, it wont let me connect wirelessly to it. It says that the network is no longer in range. What would cause this?

The wireless card I'm using is built into my Asus motherboard and has a magnetic antena and it is setup and all. I've never actually used the wireless adapter so maybe it's the adapter... Anything else I should check?

 

[JackMDS]

Are you able to connect when the Router's Wireless security is Off?

In general.

My Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html

Wireless Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html

Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah seems to work without security. I had to remove the underscore in the SSID. I re-enabled security. no go. I'll try wep. This is not really going on a critical network anyway so it's not really the end of the world if it's not highly secure.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ok so turns out either windows does not support WPA2 or there is another issue. WPA works ok. I'll live with that. Just had to do more troubleshooting myself eh. I don't work very often with wireless as all my stuff here is wired.

 

[JackMDS]

Windows XP SP2, and all Vista versions support WPA2 (WPA+AES).

Windows get the WPA2 info form the Wireless card's drivers.

So either the card does not support WPA2 at all, or the drivers are too old.

In any case for a regular user WPA would do too.,