Why can't my Thinkpad connect to unsecured WiFi networks?

I got a Thinkpad T42 from work. Whenever I disable WEP or WPA security
on the wireless portion, it has trouble connecting to them. It may even
have trouble seeing them in the list of wireless networks. Turn the
security back on, and it sees them at full strength again. Wierd.

I got a Toshiba Satellite with a Dlink G-spec PCCard, and that doesn't
exhibit the same problem. Both are running Windows XP.

Yousuf Khan


Yousuf Khan

In news:c4ednVlm-(E-Mail Removed) Yousuf Khan typed:
> I got a Thinkpad T42 from work. Whenever I disable WEP or WPA security
> on the wireless portion, it has trouble connecting to them. It may
> even have trouble seeing them in the list of wireless networks. Turn
> the security back on, and it sees them at full strength again. Wierd.

Hi Yousuf, rubbish.
When You don't use the key to get inside a door - then forget it.

> I got a Toshiba Satellite with a Dlink G-spec PCCard, and that doesn't
> exhibit the same problem. Both are running Windows XP.

Then there's a different way of usage. May be even no access protection.
Horst

Horst Franke wrote:
> In news:c4ednVlm-(E-Mail Removed) Yousuf Khan typed:
>
>> I got a Thinkpad T42 from work. Whenever I disable WEP or WPA security
>> on the wireless portion, it has trouble connecting to them. It may
>> even have trouble seeing them in the list of wireless networks. Turn
>> the security back on, and it sees them at full strength again. Wierd.
>
>
> Hi Yousuf, rubbish.
> When You don't use the key to get inside a door - then forget it.

Excuse me? What are you saying here?

What I was saying was that if I turn off the security on the wireless
router itself, the Thinkpad can't see the network anymore. The same
network it has connected to before when the security was turned on.

>
>> I got a Toshiba Satellite with a Dlink G-spec PCCard, and that doesn't
>> exhibit the same problem. Both are running Windows XP.
>
>
> Then there's a different way of usage. May be even no access protection.
> Horst

Please, can you be more cryptic?

Yousuf Khan

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