Asked By playmyj50yahooco
09-Mar-07 11:41 AM

Hi. Perhaps someone can help me with this.
My son is trying to connect to his mom's wireless network. When he is at my
house, he uses a Msoft MN-520 (?) PCMCIA card to connect to my wireless
network (MN 620?) and everything is fine. At his mom's house, she has a
Linksys wireless base station, but although his laptop sees the connection
and reports that he is connected, he can't access the Internet or e-mail or
anything else. I just talked to his brother, who has his own laptop, and he
was able to find and connect with the base station, so I know the router and
base station are working. And I know the PCMCIA card is working in the first
laptop because he can connect to my network when here.
I have tried everything I can think of, including turning on and off the
zero config service, setting up the network connection again -- but no luck.
What am I missing? Suggestions? The laptop says he is connected and the
signal strength is good, but that's as far as we can get. His laptop is a
Dell 5150 with a wireless card, as I said, and his brother's laptop is a
Lenovo with built-in wireless.