I am posting in general hardware because I do not know if it is a hardware or software issue, but I am suspecting the former.
I have a Gateway laptop and use a Cisco PCM 352 wireless PCMCIA card. The card conencts and performs flawlessly on campus where they have all Cisco equipment installed with LEAP activated. When I try to connect to other access points, for example a Netgear router at my girlfriends, or tonight at a hotel, Windows shows that there are wireless internet AP's available but most of the time I cannot connect.
For example, tonight I tried to connect over and over and messed with all sorts of settings and restarted several times but could never connect to an AP that Windows said was avaliable. I left for 3 hours and came back and tried to connect and it did so immediately. The same type of thing happens with the Netgear router mentioned above. Now that it is connected the connection is great, it is just making the association that is flaky.
SO what I am asking is, is this an issue with the card itself, possibly the various AP's, or just that wireless internet still has some bugs to be worked out.
I have a Gateway laptop and use a Cisco PCM 352 wireless PCMCIA card. The card conencts and performs flawlessly on campus where they have all Cisco equipment installed with LEAP activated. When I try to connect to other access points, for example a Netgear router at my girlfriends, or tonight at a hotel, Windows shows that there are wireless internet AP's available but most of the time I cannot connect.
For example, tonight I tried to connect over and over and messed with all sorts of settings and restarted several times but could never connect to an AP that Windows said was avaliable. I left for 3 hours and came back and tried to connect and it did so immediately. The same type of thing happens with the Netgear router mentioned above. Now that it is connected the connection is great, it is just making the association that is flaky.
SO what I am asking is, is this an issue with the card itself, possibly the various AP's, or just that wireless internet still has some bugs to be worked out.