wireless problem

[William J. Lunsford]

I bought a new HP laptop with Vista Home Premium along with a Linksys WRT546
Wireless-G Broadband Router. I can connect to the new laptop just fine with
a Cat 5e cable. Everything works -- Internet, file and printer sharing, no
problems. However, I cannot connect wirelessly with the laptop, even with
the Vista firewall turned off and no encryption. I have run the Lynksys
setup CD numerous times on both my homebuilt desktop running XP Home and the
Vista laptop. I have checked all of the settings I know about numerous
times, but I am new to Vista and may have overlooked some setting. What am
I missing?

 

[Manuel Nonaca]

Have you enable the wireless antenna (the switch on the front left side)?

 

[Rhino Skin]

Have you told the wireless adapter the wep or wpa connection key if you have
security enabled? Do you see you network in the network window? Do you have
broadcast ssid on?

 

[William J. Lunsford]

Thank you for your reply. The switch is on and the light is green.

Bill

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem. I purchased a Netgear Wireless Router woth a new
laptop with Vista Ultimate. Have spent hours with Gateway support and
Netgear support with no resolution. The laptop connects to the router and
assigns an IP. However, Internet Explorer will not work. If I connect the
same laptop directly to the router with a CAT5 cable...I can connect and use
the internet. Furthermore, my XPSP2 laptop from work connects to the
Wireless without issue.

I have updated the NetGear OS, the INtel Wireless Card and Vista to the
latest.

What could be the problem?

 

[William J. Lunsford]

Thank you for your reply, Andrew. Encryption is turned off. I did not see
my network in the network window until I turned SSID broadcasting on after
reading your reply. However, even with broadcasting on, I was not able to
connect because "The settings do not match the settings stored on this
computer." How do I get to the settings stored on this computer that
apparently conflict with the router settings?

Bill

 

[William J. Lunsford]

I finally got the settings on the laptop figured out to the point where I
can see the Internet wirelessly, but I can't see the desktop computer.
Everything works with a wired connection. From the desktop computer I can
see the laptop wirelessly.

Bill

 

[ColTom2]

Call for free support from Linksys 1-800-326-7114. Be sure and have the
exact model number and version of their product.

 

[William J. Lunsford]

Thank you for your reply. A senior technician at Linksys told me that I have
a Windows Vista problem, not a Linksys problem.

I am to the point now where the only remaining problem is that the Vista
Home Premium laptop cannot see the XP Home desktop computer wirelessly.
Everything works with a wired connection.

Bill

 

[William J. Lunsford]

There is a Hotfix for this problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930517

 

[Jerry Hughes]

You must have a password assigned to the home computer

 

[William J. Lunsford]

I finally got the problem fixed by downloading the LLTD Responder for XP
from Microsoft. Vista can't see XP wirelessly without it. Now everything
works great.

Bill

 

[William J. Lunsford]

I finally got the problem fixed by downloading the LLTD Responder for XP
from Microsoft. Vista can't see XP wirelessly without it. Now everything
works great.

Bill

 

[Vincent Brooks]

Don't forget that Vista calls workgroups "workgroups" whereas xp calls them
mshome.
If you have Vista as the main connection, change the xp identifier from
mshome to workgroups. they then recognize one another

 

[William J. Lunsford]

The problem was solved by downloading the Link-Layer Topology Discovery
(LLTD) Responder for XP from Microsoft (KB922120).

I would like to thank everybody again for responding.

Bill