Might the wireless only be 802.11b. Try setting your AP to support mixed mode.
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:35:51 -0000, "Rob Malpass" <rob@???> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Here's an interesting one for any of you who know about WLAN.
>
> I have a wireless access point connected to my cabled network. Never had
> any trouble with it. The wife's new Vista laptop noticed it and it's
> working fine.
>
> I've just bought a (used) wireless enabled laptop and no connection.
> Faffed about with all sorts of settings and still no joy. Initial
> conclusion: onboard wireless on my "new" laptop is kaput - take back and
> get
> refund. The shop is on the way to work so I took the laptop into work
> with
> me and (for other reasons) powered it up. Surprise surprise - 3 wireless
> LANs detected at work. It wouldn't let me connect to any (need a key)
> but
> next conclusion: no problem with onboard WLAN.
>
> So it means my PC will play ball at work, but not at home. My wife's PC
> is
> fine at home. Thinking it may be a signal strength issue (all WLANs at
> work were detected weak) I've just set the laptop right next to the access
> point and still no joy.
>
> All this is under XP pro, but I have also booted the machine off an Ubuntu
> disk with no WLAN access. It was that initially that made me think its
> onboard LAN was broken. Havaid said that I've never used Ubuntu (or any
> Linux distro) with WLAN so if there's a step I'm missing, please shout - I
> expected it to work out of the box as most other Ubuntu things have (and
> that's no disrespect to any other distro).
>
> FWIW it's a Toshiba tecra T9000 and I know about the WLAN switch and WLAN
> hotkey combination. If anyone could shed any light on this, that would
> be
> good.
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
>
>
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