At a friend's house

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I brought my Dell laptop (Windows XP) with Siemen Wireless PCMCIA card to a
friend's house. He had DSL Verizon service with a gateway which provided
ethernet and wireless. The connection through ethernet worked fine (internet)
but I could not get a wireless connection. I also could not get the wireless
icon when I selected XP Network Connections. Are there options to set or
security to deal with? Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Thanks,
fredm

 

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Hi
May be this can Help.
Wireless - Basic Configuration: http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"fredm" <fredm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6D2467D3-2687-47F5-8522-C22693ADA187@microsoft.com...
> I brought my Dell laptop (Windows XP) with Siemen Wireless PCMCIA card to a
> friend's house. He had DSL Verizon service with a gateway which provided
> ethernet and wireless. The connection through ethernet worked fine (internet)
> but I could not get a wireless connection. I also could not get the wireless
> icon when I selected XP Network Connections. Are there options to set or
> security to deal with? Any suggestions on how to proceed?
> Thanks,
> fredm

 

[Clark]

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Did you scan for networks, and if so what did you see? Did you find the
network, did it show a security setting, could you see the SSID?

Does you friend use MAC address filtering?

Normally, you scan for a network, pick the one you want and click connect.
You should be presented with an option to set up a profile or something that
asks about security or something.

I don't understand the part about the wireless icon. Do you not show a
wireless connection in Network Connections whenever you have the wireless
card installed?

Clark

"fredm" <fredm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6D2467D3-2687-47F5-8522-C22693ADA187@microsoft.com...
>I brought my Dell laptop (Windows XP) with Siemen Wireless PCMCIA card to a
> friend's house. He had DSL Verizon service with a gateway which provided
> ethernet and wireless. The connection through ethernet worked fine
> (internet)
> but I could not get a wireless connection. I also could not get the
> wireless
> icon when I selected XP Network Connections. Are there options to set or
> security to deal with? Any suggestions on how to proceed?
> Thanks,
> fredm