Netgear WG311 - Can't connect to 802.11b home network?

[cjohnson]

I just put a new box together yesterday, with a Netgear WG311 as the wireless NIC. I have an 802.11b Linksys router for sharing my Internet connection with the computers in the house. Basically, the little "Wireless Connection Available" thing pops up in Windows, and shows my SSID. I check the box to connect even though it's not secure, and click 'Connect', it never actually connects. I get another message a couple of seconds later that says "Wireless Connection Unavailable", just to be followed by the "Wireless Connection Available" thing that lists my SSID. I have a laptop next to me that connects to the network just fine, so I'm pretty sure it's not the network. I've tried moving the computer/antenna around a bit, but with no success. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Swimmer12]

Ok... i dont know why you would want to mix and match on wireless product but that is ok... You have the wg311 54g wireless card on a 802.11 b system.. Have you check to make sure that you didnt mess up the wep/wpa encription codes? That will not allow you to connect if you did that... Next, if that doesnt work try and manually select 11mbs on the speed settings for the wifi card itself... The Netgear might be trying to connect at 54... last try a manual config of your settings... assign it an ip, subnet mask, and Gateway/DNS... The gateway and DNS items should be the ip address of the router itself... The subnet mask should be, i think, 255.255.255.0 Hope this works..