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Problem
I can not connect to my Techniclan WAR-54G router's personal wireless network via my older Acer Travelmate 2300 XP Pro laptop that uses a InProComm IPN2220 wireless network card. However, this laptop does see all my neighbor's networks just fine. This leads me to believe that the configuration in one of the two devices, router or wireless card, is not properly set. I just do not know which one.
I must also mention that my other Vista laptop can connect just fine to my router's personal network. (This is the computer I am writing this post from)
I thought that the best and most thorough way to document my problem was to just show a list of screenshots of the relevant interface windows for the router, wireless card configuration, wireless network connection properties and configuration utility.
For those who can not see the images below please go to these image galleries:
Router Screenshots
http://picasaweb.google.com/adam.siddhi/ImagesRouter#
Wireless Network Connection Properties
http://picasaweb.google.com/adam.siddhi/ImagesWireless#
Router Settings via my Vista computer
Wireless
LAN
Firewall
Wireless Network Connection Interfaces from my Acer Travelmate 2300
Wireless Network Connection Properties
My manually input preferred network
That't a lot of screenshots... – JNK – 2010-09-13T13:55:29.867
I can't see any of the images because of filtering, but is the network secured ? How is it secured ? WPA2 ? Does the laptop network card support WPA2 ? – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-09-13T13:58:37.667
@JNK just trying to be as thorough as possible to solve this very stressful problem. @Sathya Like in my comment to your answer below I see that my network card does not support WPA2 but my router does have the ability to encrypt in WPA2 mixed which leads me to believe it could work since the newer Vista laptop NIC can take WPA2 and the older Acer XP laptop NIC 'only' accepts WPA. What do you think? I found this link https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-4349 but I am not sure if WPA2 mixed would defiantly work and I don't want to risk a security break.
– classer – 2010-09-13T18:13:52.333Try out mixed mode. If it works, then select that. Else fall back to WPA. – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-09-13T20:17:06.053