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From: john on 18 Dec 2009 17:47
Edward Diener wrote:
> I am trying to connect my laptop via a wireless connection to my D-Link
> DIR-655 router. The router supports the 802.11n, 802.11g, and 802.11b
> standards.
>
> The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D which as an Integrated
> Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN.
>
> I am running Windows XP on my laptop.
>
> Under Windows XP on my laptop it finds my wireless network by its name
> of, let's say, 'MyWirelessNet' and I click on the entry and then on the
> Connect button. It prompts me for my network key and I type in, let's
> say, 'Y2YT5689OPEE' which is the key for my router using WPA or WPA2. I
> then type this in again in the Confirm area also. I press the OK button.
>
> It then attempts to connect, taking a very long time to do so with a
> message box and a message "Please wait while Windows connects to the
> 'MyWirelessNet' network" and another message below it which says
> "Waiting for the network...". Finally the Wireless Network Connection
> message box closes but I can see the connection has not been made. No
> error message shows anything, which is really surprising, and I am not
> getting a message which might say that it failed to connect.
>
> I would have thought that Windows XP would have given me some indication
> of why it is not connecting to my router, but I see absolutely nothing.
>
> Ideas, thoughts, solutions, experiences, or things I might try to get my
> laptop to connect wirelessly to the DIR-655 are most welcome. Especially
> if anybody knows how I can determine in Windows XP why the connection is
> failing.
>
> If I run a wired network cable from my laptop to the DIR-655 everything
> is successful. But naturally I want to connect wirelessly so I can move
> my laptop around. Isn't that what laptops are all about ?
>
> I have also successful connecting my laptop wirelessly to other wireless
> router networks. But not to my DIR-655 router.
I too use a DIR-655 what I did was create a text file with the WPA2
wireless key then cut and pasted into laptops. That allows the checking
of the wireless key for typos.

Good luck
From: Bernd on 18 Dec 2009 20:40


-------- Original-Nachricht --------

> I am trying to connect my laptop via a wireless connection to my D-Link
> DIR-655 router. The router supports the 802.11n, 802.11g, and 802.11b
> standards.
>
> The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D which as an Integrated
> Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN.
>
> I am running Windows XP on my laptop.
>
> Under Windows XP on my laptop it finds my wireless network by its name
> of, let's say, 'MyWirelessNet' and I click on the entry and then on the
> Connect button. It prompts me for my network key and I type in, let's
> say, 'Y2YT5689OPEE' which is the key for my router using WPA or WPA2. I
> then type this in again in the Confirm area also. I press the OK button.
>
> It then attempts to connect, taking a very long time to do so with a
> message box and a message "Please wait while Windows connects to the
> 'MyWirelessNet' network" and another message below it which says
> "Waiting for the network...". Finally the Wireless Network Connection
> message box closes but I can see the connection has not been made. No
> error message shows anything, which is really surprising, and I am not
> getting a message which might say that it failed to connect.
>
> I would have thought that Windows XP would have given me some indication
> of why it is not connecting to my router, but I see absolutely nothing.
>
> Ideas, thoughts, solutions, experiences, or things I might try to get my
> laptop to connect wirelessly to the DIR-655 are most welcome. Especially
> if anybody knows how I can determine in Windows XP why the connection is
> failing.
>
> If I run a wired network cable from my laptop to the DIR-655 everything
> is successful. But naturally I want to connect wirelessly so I can move
> my laptop around. Isn't that what laptops are all about ?
>
> I have also successful connecting my laptop wirelessly to other wireless
> router networks. But not to my DIR-655 router.

1. Did you ever get a wireless connection to your router before ?
2. Try to force the use of the same wireless mode 802.11g at the router
and the card in the laptop.
3. Look here:

http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html

Bernd
From: Edward Diener on 18 Dec 2009 21:47
Edward Diener wrote:
> I am trying to connect my laptop via a wireless connection to my D-Link
> DIR-655 router. The router supports the 802.11n, 802.11g, and 802.11b
> standards.
>
> The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D which as an Integrated
> Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN.
>
> I am running Windows XP on my laptop.
>
> Under Windows XP on my laptop it finds my wireless network by its name
> of, let's say, 'MyWirelessNet' and I click on the entry and then on the
> Connect button. It prompts me for my network key and I type in, let's
> say, 'Y2YT5689OPEE' which is the key for my router using WPA or WPA2. I
> then type this in again in the Confirm area also. I press the OK button.
>
> It then attempts to connect, taking a very long time to do so with a
> message box and a message "Please wait while Windows connects to the
> 'MyWirelessNet' network" and another message below it which says
> "Waiting for the network...". Finally the Wireless Network Connection
> message box closes but I can see the connection has not been made. No
> error message shows anything, which is really surprising, and I am not
> getting a message which might say that it failed to connect.
>
> I would have thought that Windows XP would have given me some indication
> of why it is not connecting to my router, but I see absolutely nothing.
>
> Ideas, thoughts, solutions, experiences, or things I might try to get my
> laptop to connect wirelessly to the DIR-655 are most welcome. Especially
> if anybody knows how I can determine in Windows XP why the connection is
> failing.
>
> If I run a wired network cable from my laptop to the DIR-655 everything
> is successful. But naturally I want to connect wirelessly so I can move
> my laptop around. Isn't that what laptops are all about ?
>
> I have also successful connecting my laptop wirelessly to other wireless
> router networks. But not to my DIR-655 router.

To everyone who replied helping me out with this problem, I want to say
thanks. By changing my router's setting from mixed mode 802.11b /
802.11g / 802.11n to mixed mode 802.11b / 802.11g the connection was
finally made. My laptop supports only 802.11b / 802.11g so I guess
setting my router to support all three caused the problem ( although as
a programmer I don't think it should ).
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