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grrr...new Linksys USB wireless card *refuses* to see my home network

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NTB

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What gives here? I've got two other computers in this house (including one sitting not 3 feet from the one that won't work) that can find and use my home network just fine. I bought one for a friend of mine though - who wants to set up a small network in his own house - and thought I would install and test it, since it's his computer that's sitting here. It installed beautifully, but I can't get it to connect for nothing. I have checked the SSID and WEP key several times, and it just won't work. Suggestions?

PS: followed Linksys's install instructions to the letter. This is a Windows XP system, so according to the sheet I don't need the "utility" that comes with the drivers. XP should be able to handle the card itself. It does on my other two computers - only difference there are Netgear USB adaptors, rather than Linksys.

Nate
 
Does Netstumbler pick up the network?...if it does then it may be XP's software and you may wanna try using the Linksys software...
 
I would make the network as unsecure as possible and add in security bit by bit to see where the failure is.

Leave SSID broadcast on

No encryption

No MAC address filtering

see if it connects!

Turn them on one by one until it no longer can connect
 
Definitely remove any and all security layers. Start from scratch, with the AP completely open and get your client association, then add your layers bit by bit.
 
Working my way through the bugs now 🙂 Rather than mess with my router though, I plugged his new one in and left all the security features off. Time to start adding things in and see what the linksys doesn't like.

Nate
 
doesn't work like that. If your associated now, getting and IP and have connectivity after defaulting the client device then the router has no security enabled or configured. Which is what you want anyway when troubleshooting. So, if that is the case then start adding layers on the router, and see what the card doesn't like, not vice versa.
 
Ok...ended up with the new router set up identically to mine, as far as I could tell - and the linksys worked perfectly. I guess there's just something about my router in particular that it doesn't like. Which is strange, considering that they're the same router, except that one is a version 2, while the other is a version 3 (both are Netgear MR814 wireless-b routers)

Nate
 
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