Question about a new Linksys Wireless-G Router

[Jasio-]

Alright, my old router died due to a power outage yesterday and i purchased a new one today. I set it all up, and the internet works on the main computer and my laptop. The laptop asked for my WPA-Personal key, but my other computer (about a year and a half old) will not connect, it sais it could be out of range (it's not though). When i went to set up the connection in advanced properties, it only gives the options Disabled and WEP for the WEP/WPA key.. My laptop gives WPA-PSK (the one i'm using) aswell as all the other choices. When I tried putting the key as a normal WEP key it obviously wouldn't work, saying it had to be 5 or 13 ASCII characters, etc. Do I have to make a regular WEP key for my internet to connect, or can I update something on my computer to get it to recognize the WPA-Personal key.

Thank you and sorry for the difficult to understand issue..,
Ross Lepera.

 

[gavilan]

The network adapter in your other computer only supports WEP. Unfortunately, this can only be remedied by buying a new wireless card, as the encryption is not software upgradeable.

You'll need to set up your router and your laptop to do WEP, or buy a new wireless card for the other computer so you can do WPA. Wireless networks cannot do WEP and WPA at the same time on the same network.

 

[NetCablesPlus]

I am a bit confused. Is your 'main computer' and the 'other computer' that you are having problems with, the same computer and is it a desktop? If the answer to both is Yes, then wouldn't it make sense to have the desktop connected to the router via a cable? Of course, I may have totally misunderstood your situation...