New machine unable to find available wireless network

[DonKlein]

I am attempting to add a new Dell Demension 2400 to an existing Windows 2003 SBS wireless network. I have installed a Linksys wireless G wmp54g pci card, and installed the Linksys driver version 3.30.15.0. The card is "working properly" in device manager and I have disabled the Dell onboard 10/100 integrated controller.

The machine does not find any available networks. We are running the same pci card and software in several other Dells without any issue. I have swapped pci cards with one running in one of those machines and the problem stays with the machine, not the card.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Don

 

[bcastner]

Have you disabled SSID broadcast on the router? Re-enable broadcast.
Have you manually set the channel to match the router?
Have you disabled 802.1x authentication on the client?
Is the adapter set to Mixed mode?
How far from the router is the client workstation?

 

[DonKlein]

Bcastner,

I assume that by router you are refering to my wireless access point? (Very quicky my inexperience is exposed)

I have not done any of these things, nor do I really know how.

As far as distance from the WAP, it is setting on a desk next to another machine that has "very good" signal strength.

 

[ronnyjljr]

Don,

Try setting the SSID manually on the computer.

-Ron

cout << "If you don't know where you want to go, we'll make sure you get taken";

 

[DonKlein]

Webbing out to the router / WAP and enabling SSID Broadcast allowed the machine to find the network. Thanks all for your kind responses.

Don