Dell 1350 WLAN will not connect to Hawking HWR54G

[Tony]

I have recently set up a 802.11g network in my home using the HWR54G
wireless router. Everything at home works great, using Hawking's wireless
adapters in my home PCs. I occasionally bring my laptop from work to my
home, and it is a Dell D600 with a Dell 1350 integrated WLAN adapter. It
connects just fine when I bring it to hotels, etc, but at home it will not
hook up with the HWR54G. It associates enough to try to get an IP address,
but always ends up with 0.0.0.0. Tried a bunch of stuff, including
configuring both the wireless router and the Dell to 802.11b, but same
problem. Looking for help.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I have recently set up a 802.11g network in my home using the HWR54G
wireless router. Everything at home works great, using Hawking's wireless
adapters in my home PCs. I occasionally bring my laptop from work to my
home, and it is a Dell D600 with a Dell 1350 integrated WLAN adapter. It
connects just fine when I bring it to hotels, etc, but at home it will not
hook up with the HWR54G. It associates enough to try to get an IP address,
but always ends up with 0.0.0.0. Tried a bunch of stuff, including
configuring both the wireless router and the Dell to 802.11b, but same
problem. Looking for help.

Have you set up MAC address filtering on the wireless router? If so,
add the Dell WLAN adapter to the allowed list.

Make sure that you've specified the right encryption type and key.

If that doesn't help, I'd try posting in the Dell wireless networking
community forum:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board?board.id=si_wireless
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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[Tony]

Have you set up MAC address filtering on the wireless router? If so,
add the Dell WLAN adapter to the allowed list.

Make sure that you've specified the right encryption type and key.

If that doesn't help, I'd try posting in the Dell wireless networking
community forum:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board?board.id=si_wireless
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Steve, I do not have any MAC filtering set up, and I have checked and double
checked the encryption type and key. Thanks for the link to Dell; I'll post
there as well.