Unable to connect to my wireless network router from laptop on WindowsXP

[Edward Diener]

I am trying to connect my laptop via a wireless connection to my D-Link
DIR-655 router. The router supports the 802.11n, 802.11g, and 802.11b
standards.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D which as an Integrated
Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN.

I am running Windows XP on my laptop.

Under Windows XP on my laptop it finds my wireless network by its name
of, let's say, 'MyWirelessNet' and I click on the entry and then on the
Connect button. It prompts me for my network key and I type in, let's
say, 'Y2YT5689OPEE' which is the key for my router using WPA or WPA2. I
then type this in again in the Confirm area also. I press the OK button.

It then attempts to connect, taking a very long time to do so with a
message box and a message "Please wait while Windows connects to the
'MyWirelessNet' network" and another message below it which says
"Waiting for the network...". Finally the Wireless Network Connection
message box closes but I can see the connection has not been made. No
error message shows anything, which is really surprising, and I am not
getting a message which might say that it failed to connect.

I would have thought that Windows XP would have given me some indication
of why it is not connecting to my router, but I see absolutely nothing.

Ideas, thoughts, solutions, experiences, or things I might try to get my
laptop to connect wirelessly to the DIR-655 are most welcome. Especially
if anybody knows how I can determine in Windows XP why the connection is
failing.

If I run a wired network cable from my laptop to the DIR-655 everything
is successful. But naturally I want to connect wirelessly so I can move
my laptop around. Isn't that what laptops are all about ?

I have also successful connecting my laptop wirelessly to other wireless
router networks. But not to my DIR-655 router.

 

[Jim]

It can be quite hard to enter the key correctly. All you have found is that
you are entering the wrong key consistently.

The last time that I added a wireless computer to my lan was several years
ago. It took me three attempts to get the key correct even though I could
not see any difference.

Jim

 

[Edward Diener]

It can be quite hard to enter the key correctly. All you have found is that
you are entering the wrong key consistently.

The last time that I added a wireless computer to my lan was several years
ago. It took me three attempts to get the key correct even though I could
not see any difference.

I tried temporarily removing any security so that no key was required,
and the same problem still occured so it is not a problem with entering
the key. I had also previously entered the key very carefully a number
of times to make sure I was not mistyping.

If only it were entering the wrong key that was the problem <g>. Thanks
for the suggestion nonetheless.

I am still baffled that Windows XP does not even indicate that the
connection failed, with perhaps some sort of reason. I'm a programmer
and that's really lousy programming to give the end-user no feedback in
the matter.

 

[john]

I am trying to connect my laptop via a wireless connection to my D-Link
DIR-655 router. The router supports the 802.11n, 802.11g, and 802.11b
standards.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D which as an Integrated
Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN.

I am running Windows XP on my laptop.

Under Windows XP on my laptop it finds my wireless network by its name
of, let's say, 'MyWirelessNet' and I click on the entry and then on the
Connect button. It prompts me for my network key and I type in, let's
say, 'Y2YT5689OPEE' which is the key for my router using WPA or WPA2. I
then type this in again in the Confirm area also. I press the OK button.

It then attempts to connect, taking a very long time to do so with a
message box and a message "Please wait while Windows connects to the
'MyWirelessNet' network" and another message below it which says
"Waiting for the network...". Finally the Wireless Network Connection
message box closes but I can see the connection has not been made. No
error message shows anything, which is really surprising, and I am not
getting a message which might say that it failed to connect.

I would have thought that Windows XP would have given me some indication
of why it is not connecting to my router, but I see absolutely nothing.

Ideas, thoughts, solutions, experiences, or things I might try to get my
laptop to connect wirelessly to the DIR-655 are most welcome. Especially
if anybody knows how I can determine in Windows XP why the connection is
failing.

If I run a wired network cable from my laptop to the DIR-655 everything
is successful. But naturally I want to connect wirelessly so I can move
my laptop around. Isn't that what laptops are all about ?

I have also successful connecting my laptop wirelessly to other wireless
router networks. But not to my DIR-655 router.

I too use a DIR-655 what I did was create a text file with the WPA2
wireless key then cut and pasted into laptops. That allows the checking
of the wireless key for typos.

Good luck

 

[Edward Diener]

I too use a DIR-655 what I did was create a text file with the WPA2
wireless key then cut and pasted into laptops. That allows the checking
of the wireless key for typos.

I will try that but I have not only very carefully typed in the network
key but have tried to connect with no security at all (and thus no key
to type in) and both times have failed. Also since I have successfully
connected to other Wifis when traveling with my laptop, it does not
appear that it can be a laptop problem.

 

[Bernd]

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I am trying to connect my laptop via a wireless connection to my D-Link
DIR-655 router. The router supports the 802.11n, 802.11g, and 802.11b
standards.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D which as an Integrated
Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN.

I am running Windows XP on my laptop.

Under Windows XP on my laptop it finds my wireless network by its name
of, let's say, 'MyWirelessNet' and I click on the entry and then on the
Connect button. It prompts me for my network key and I type in, let's
say, 'Y2YT5689OPEE' which is the key for my router using WPA or WPA2. I
then type this in again in the Confirm area also. I press the OK button.

It then attempts to connect, taking a very long time to do so with a
message box and a message "Please wait while Windows connects to the
'MyWirelessNet' network" and another message below it which says
"Waiting for the network...". Finally the Wireless Network Connection
message box closes but I can see the connection has not been made. No
error message shows anything, which is really surprising, and I am not
getting a message which might say that it failed to connect.

I would have thought that Windows XP would have given me some indication
of why it is not connecting to my router, but I see absolutely nothing.

Ideas, thoughts, solutions, experiences, or things I might try to get my
laptop to connect wirelessly to the DIR-655 are most welcome. Especially
if anybody knows how I can determine in Windows XP why the connection is
failing.

If I run a wired network cable from my laptop to the DIR-655 everything
is successful. But naturally I want to connect wirelessly so I can move
my laptop around. Isn't that what laptops are all about ?

I have also successful connecting my laptop wirelessly to other wireless
router networks. But not to my DIR-655 router.

1. Did you ever get a wireless connection to your router before ?
2. Try to force the use of the same wireless mode 802.11g at the router
and the card in the laptop.
3. Look here:

http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html

Bernd

 

[Edward Diener]

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1. Did you ever get a wireless connection to your router before ?
No.

2. Try to force the use of the same wireless mode 802.11g at the router
and the card in the laptop.

I don't know how to set my laptop to use 802.11g. The laptop says that I
have an Integrated Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN but there is nothing
there on manually setting this card to use 802.11b or 802.11g. The
D-Link DIR-655 can supports 802.11b and 802.11g ( as well as 802.11n )
and there are mixed modes and only modes. I will play around with this
to see if setting either the 802.11b only mode, the 802.11g only mode,
or the 802.11b, 802.11g mixed mode works. Right now I have it set at
802.11, 802.11g, 802.11n mixed mode.

3. Look here:

http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html

Thanks for the link.

 

[Edward Diener]

I am trying to connect my laptop via a wireless connection to my D-Link
DIR-655 router. The router supports the 802.11n, 802.11g, and 802.11b
standards.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D which as an Integrated
Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN.

I am running Windows XP on my laptop.

Under Windows XP on my laptop it finds my wireless network by its name
of, let's say, 'MyWirelessNet' and I click on the entry and then on the
Connect button. It prompts me for my network key and I type in, let's
say, 'Y2YT5689OPEE' which is the key for my router using WPA or WPA2. I
then type this in again in the Confirm area also. I press the OK button.

It then attempts to connect, taking a very long time to do so with a
message box and a message "Please wait while Windows connects to the
'MyWirelessNet' network" and another message below it which says
"Waiting for the network...". Finally the Wireless Network Connection
message box closes but I can see the connection has not been made. No
error message shows anything, which is really surprising, and I am not
getting a message which might say that it failed to connect.

I would have thought that Windows XP would have given me some indication
of why it is not connecting to my router, but I see absolutely nothing.

Ideas, thoughts, solutions, experiences, or things I might try to get my
laptop to connect wirelessly to the DIR-655 are most welcome. Especially
if anybody knows how I can determine in Windows XP why the connection is
failing.

If I run a wired network cable from my laptop to the DIR-655 everything
is successful. But naturally I want to connect wirelessly so I can move
my laptop around. Isn't that what laptops are all about ?

I have also successful connecting my laptop wirelessly to other wireless
router networks. But not to my DIR-655 router.

To everyone who replied helping me out with this problem, I want to say
thanks. By changing my router's setting from mixed mode 802.11b /
802.11g / 802.11n to mixed mode 802.11b / 802.11g the connection was
finally made. My laptop supports only 802.11b / 802.11g so I guess
setting my router to support all three caused the problem ( although as
a programmer I don't think it should ).

 

[Bernd]

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To everyone who replied helping me out with this problem, I want to say
thanks. By changing my router's setting from mixed mode 802.11b /
802.11g / 802.11n to mixed mode 802.11b / 802.11g the connection was
finally made. My laptop supports only 802.11b / 802.11g so I guess
setting my router to support all three caused the problem ( although as
a programmer I don't think it should ).

Glad to hear you were successful.

By the way:

Setting the wireless mode of your wireless card of your laptop
should/could be possible going to Device Manager, selecting your
wireless card/device and look at the properties, especially at an
Advanced tab.

Bernd

 

[Edward Diener]

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Glad to hear you were successful.

By the way:

Setting the wireless mode of your wireless card of your laptop
should/could be possible going to Device Manager, selecting your
wireless card/device and look at the properties, especially at an
Advanced tab.

There are many properties on the Advanced tab which can be changed but
none of them allows the wireless mode to be set. My guess is that the
adapter tries the 802.11g protocol but if there are any problems with
that it falls back to the 802.11b protocol.

I am just happy I got this working with my laptop so I can move it
around and connecting wirelessly to my network and the Internet.