Wireless problem with Vista

> If disable security in the wireless AP, can you access it?

> I just bought my daughter a new Acer laptop for college next year and
> I'm trying to get it up and running. Of course, it came with Vista (SP1)
> installed. My problem is that I can't get it to connect to my wireless
> access point at home. It sees the signal, shows the essid properly, but
> when I try to connect it complains:
>
> Windows cannot connect to my_essid
>
> [] Diagnose the prblem
> [] Connect to a different network.
>
> I click on "Diagnose" and get this helpful message:
>
> Windows cannot connect to my_essid
>
> Wireless association failed because Windows did not receive any
> response from the wireless router or access point.
>
> [] Click for information on troubleshooting low wireless signal quality
> problems.
>
> This in turn brings up a generic message about being too far from the
> access point (<4m and the Network Connections applet describes the
> signal as "excellent"); the access point is turned off or not working
> properly (it is on, and it works fine with my laptop); there is
> interference from other devices; the network is not set to broadcast its
> SSID (it is, and it displays properly in the Network Connections applet.
>
> So I disabled all the encryption, authentication, etc. on the access
> point to see if that was the problem -- no joy with Vista, but it still
> works fine with my laptop.
>
> So I disable the Windows firewall (I have a firewall and NAT on the
> gateway appliance), set the wireless device properties to maximum
> compatibility in the Windows Device Manager -- still no joy.
>
> Is there some way to extract more information from Windows about the
> nature of the problem? On my (linux) laptop I can simply peruse the
> message log, error stream from the device driver, etc. to get helpful
> information. Does Windows have something analogous somewhere?
>
> TIA...
>
>
> --
>
> John (john@os2.dhs.org)
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