Re: Vista doesnt connect to Linksys wireless network

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How many "Profiles" does she have configured. Did this issue surface 'after' she started back to school?

Many public institutions have finally given some thought to security. I would wonder if there is something in the her school appropriate configuration that does not allow your, possibly, less secure non-certified WLAN to connect? Just guessing.

Fortunately, Vista does allow an alternate profile. Select the alternate profile, the start from scratch with configuring it to access your home network. If that solves the problem - allow her to use one for school and the other when connecting at home.

"Zap" <Zap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6084988F-DF52-4B77-B33C-D2CA5663A9BA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ugh! All of a suden my kid's Vista Dell laptop can not connect to our home
network. It used to work fine. It wouldn't connect, we recycled the router
a number of times and all of a sudden it connected. It won't connect this
morning again. Here's the details. Please help...ed

Laptop connects fine to her school wireless network

Linksys WR54GS router

Router firmware updated to latest version 1.52

I have a XP laptop, a Mac, XBOX Live and a XP desktop that all connect fine

The router is broadcasting the SSID

Dell's wireless config utility sees the radio and has strong signal strength

No securtity except for MAC address filtering; MAC address entered correctly

Router does not see the Dell laptop as active when viewing MAC addresses

Tried with MAC address filtering off. Same results


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