Help me connect.

>I just bought a laptop with wireless and vista. I have run the networking
> setup wizard on my home pc, which is a hp with xp. When I put the usb
> into
> my laptop to run the setup wizard, it goes through all the steps and then
> says it can not complete the wizard. I have tried every setting I can
> think
> of and can not seem to connect to my pc or use the printer connected to
> the
> pc. It doesn't even show up under my network connections. I have a
> linksys
> router and am able to use the internet on my laptop, but can't seem to set
> up
> the networking.