Hi I have just bought a cnet CWR-854 wireless router.
I have a HP Compaq nx9010 laptop that has a LAN-Express ieee 802.11 pci adapter installed. I believe that the adapter is for the 802.11b protocol. I believe this mainly from what I found on the HP site and the web in general, I have been unable to confirm this by inspection of the laptop.
Which I guess is question 1 - other than the naming of a device and device driver is there any way to determine which protocols a wireless adapter is intended to work with.
Question 2 is: Why can the adapter see the wireless network, obtain the name of the network (the ESSID) and determine if the network is secure or unsecure but cannot connect to the network. The "Waiting for network" progress bar dialog is displayed until it times out and the connection attempt fails.
The Adapter doesn't support wpa encryption so I have tried no encryption and WEP encryption.
I have tried matching up channels and fragmentation thresholds. I have tried setting the router to B only, G only and Mixed, but nothing changes the scenario described above.
I am happy that the router is working as I have a newer dell laptop that took 15 seconds to configure and worked perfectly.
The other odd thing is that all though the wireless network adapter is clearly there ie i can configure it and at least attempt to connect; ipconfig -all does not show any info about the card at all, as if there was no card installed.
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