I am currently staying in a house that has a wireless network. The network is open, with no encryption, so I assumed the network would be found and connected straight away. After booting, windows finds the network, however when you click 'connect' it just tries to connect for some time before stopping, saying it has failed. Other computers are on the network fine, with the same settings. I am near the top of a 6 floor house, but I assume the signal would be plenty strong enough. The card is brand new and I have exchanged it once in case it was a fault there. Any information or advice welcome, thanks.

is this wireless network also include a dhcp server? Is tcp/ip in the wireless card properties set to get ip dynamically? What channel are the working pcs nics on? Have you configured the wireless cards SSID and Network mode? match all the card configuration setting as those of a working card. If still no go borrow one of the working cards and see if it works in your pc. Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

Hi, another problem could be, if you've changed the NIC, the old nic remains in the registry. In my network places, the correct nic will be shown, but windows sometimes uses the old nic configuration of the other nic, former installed. I've had this problem, deleted all nic entries from the registry, installed the new nic driver and it worked. Paul