Wireless card not connecting to router?

budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
edited August 2009 in Science & Tech
At my parents (always seems to be some sort of tech issue when i visit...grrr)...He got some handme down thinkpad w/a "Cisco Aironet 350" card.

Their house is wireless i set it up a while back. There is 1 desktop (DT) running wireless (was 2 but one cupt...y the laptop (LT)), i am wireless when i visit and my brother and sister are wireless when they visit...so i know the network seems to be good and stable...

I cant get this darn thinkpad on-line...it sees the SSID but when it trys to do the connection thing it just doesnt happen...

Thoughts?

Card: Cisco Aironet 350
Router: Encore ENHWI-G3
Security: WPA

I have totally turned off security and still nothing....
The laptop will hardwire (HW) to the router and work...(using now)

Comments

  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited August 2009
    The wireless card in question is an 802.11b-only card... it is not 802.11g compatible. Make sure the router is in b/g mixed mode (may also be listed as 802.11b compatibility mode). If the router is set to 802.11g only, your laptop will not be able to connect.
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited August 2009
    dont see anything like that...only thing resembling that is a setting for "range extended enhancement"...no definition found for what it does or what it means but turned it on and it did nothing.

    Next?
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    What is the model number of the router? It's possible you have a router that does g only in which case you're SOL. Either get a better router or get a better card.
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited August 2009
    budhisetiawan wrote:
    At my parents (always seems to be some sort of tech issue when i visit...grrr)...He got some handme down thinkpad w/a "Cisco Aironet 350" card.

    Their house is wireless i set it up a while back. There is 1 desktop (DT) running wireless (was 2 but one cupt...y the laptop (LT)), i am wireless when i visit and my brother and sister are wireless when they visit...so i know the network seems to be good and stable...

    I cant get this darn thinkpad on-line...it sees the SSID but when it trys to do the connection thing it just doesnt happen...

    Thoughts?

    Card: Cisco Aironet 350
    Router: Encore ENHWI-G3
    Security: WPA

    I have totally turned off security and still nothing....
    The laptop will hardwire (HW) to the router and work...(using now)

    "ENHWI-G3 is backward compatible with 802.11b standard" copied out of the spec sheet....

    next?
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited August 2009
    specs for the two things in questions...

    Router:

    http://www.encore-usa.com/download/specsheet/ENHWI-G3.pdf

    Wireless card:

    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps6442/ps4555/ps448/product_data_sheet09186a0080088828.html
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited August 2009
    bud, I've solved that one a few times on an old computer that's been around. Any chance the SSID is already stored in the computer with different WPA credentials than the one you're connecting to? More than once I've had to delete the stored "Linksys" information before I could make a computer connect to another SSID "Linksys" that had different encryption and/or a different encryption key. Go to wireless networks, delete the SSID and start over.
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited August 2009
    well...i tried the delete thing and it didnt work...at first...

    I did fix it though...i deleted everything...and changed the settings to open vs. shared (dont know what that means)

    I think it was the card...it is so old it wont do WPA (?)...so i dumb down the security to WEP (?) so card could connect...

    It wouldnt work before though even w/ no security so i think MTROX wont the prize...

    Make sense?

    Thx for all the input!
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited August 2009
    I looked at the specs on that card, it said it recognized WPA. But I've seen some old cards that have trouble connecting to WPA. WEP is not that good, but any hacker with skills is sitting outside Home Depot stealing credit card numbers.
    budhisetiawan wrote:
    i think MTROX wont the prize...

    What did I win?
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited August 2009
    Yea tried explaining to my mom...told her i dumbed down her security and she started going crazy about some thing she saw on the news...blah blah blah blah...

    Told her "ma if the guy can hack WEP...he can have WPA...not to mention if he can hack either of them...he isnt sitting outside your house!"...LOL...
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited August 2009
    budhisetiawan wrote:
    Yea tried explaining to my mom...and she started going crazy...

    Never tell your mom anything Bud. Come on...... :smiles:
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