MN-500 and MN-520 Inconsistant connection

I have a MN-500 Base running on a WIn 98ME desktop. My
laptop with a MN-520 card does nopt always "see" my
network. Signal goes from no signal to excellent, and the
laptop is on the samedesk as the base station. Usually the
laptop doe not see the wire,ess network at all.

I read
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/br...tworking/10_ts
_wirelessdrop1.mspx
The behavior described seems like my situation but in step
3 it says to click the Wireless Networks tab - in the
properties window....when I click on Properties the
only "tabs" are General and advanced...Nothing
says "wireless" so I am not able to get to the "Enable
IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network check box"

If I right click the connection in the Newwork
Connections" window, and select "view available network
connections" the network I am connected to - wirelessly-
is not shown. All of the fields are "greyed out". (even
when the coneection is good, and signal sterngth is
excellent - according to icon in the systray.

The wireless is so inconsistant as to be useless so I just
give up and connect an ethernet cable.

Open network settings in control panel and look at TCP/IP settings on the
laptop and check WINS resolution. I had a similar symptom and had "Use DHCP"
checked off. When I changed it to "Enable WINS resolution " and put in the IP
of the wirless base station everything was peachy.

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> I have a MN-500 Base running on a WIn 98ME desktop. My
> laptop with a MN-520 card does nopt always "see" my
> network. Signal goes from no signal to excellent, and the
> laptop is on the samedesk as the base station. Usually the
> laptop doe not see the wire,ess network at all.
>
> I read
> http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/br...tworking/10_ts
> _wirelessdrop1.mspx
> The behavior described seems like my situation but in step
> 3 it says to click the Wireless Networks tab - in the
> properties window....when I click on Properties the
> only "tabs" are General and advanced...Nothing
> says "wireless" so I am not able to get to the "Enable
> IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network check box"
>
> If I right click the connection in the Newwork
> Connections" window, and select "view available network
> connections" the network I am connected to - wirelessly-
> is not shown. All of the fields are "greyed out". (even
> when the coneection is good, and signal sterngth is
> excellent - according to icon in the systray.
>
> The wireless is so inconsistant as to be useless so I just
> give up and connect an ethernet cable.
>