College Dorm Network Issues

NiGHTS

Hey guys, I have 2 questions/problems I need solved and I can't figure them out. Here goes:

Question 1: My laptop died at work today due to the battery, it went into hibernate. Upon waking it back up once I got home to plug it in, upon doing so it connected to the wireless router in the room, but could/would not load up any web pages. What gives? There is activity on the wireless signal, albeit a small amount, but its showing very good service with movement both in and out.

Other Pertinent information: Wireless card is on, running ZAP, XP Home

Question 2: I have a desktop in my dorm connected via wire to the school network. I have the ability to run that wireless as well, I choose not to because I don't need to. I would like to print things on my laptop, however, without having to move the cable back and forth. Upon switching to wireless on the desktop, I am unable to "network" both my desktop and laptop together to share the printer. How can I go about doing this?

Other Pertinent Information about desktop: running ZA, XP Pro

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read guys! I really appreciate it.

NiGHTS

Friendly bump!

Problem has not gone away in question 1.

Shorty

Do you know if you have been given an ip address by the router

You can do this check by clicking:

Start Menu -> Run -> Type "CMD" -> Type "ipconfig"

What information does it return..?

NiGHTS

Hey shorty!

Guess I should have mentioned that. Yes, it has given me one. I just don't understand why it works on the school's public wireless and my office's public wireless. The WEP password has not changed, either on the router or my laptop.

Didn't post what it returns, but it gives me an IP, a gateway, and a mask. None are out of the ordinary, starts 192.xxx.xxx as it should.

NiGHTS

*bump;)