trouble connecting laptop to wireless gateway router

I have a motorola wireless gateway router sbg900. My desktop has a netgear
wg111 wireless access point.
With assistance from my cable provider (telstra bigpond) I have the desktop
going ok with the router using WEP
connection with a set key. When I try to connect the COMPAQ 2566AP laptop it
tells me that it can see the network
named (Motorola43fs) but I can never get it to actually connect to it. To
make sure both network name and key are identical I
cut and paste both. I am running XP pro with service pack 2.

Any suggestions please?????

Disable WEP and see if you can get it to connect that way. After you get a
connection that actually works, then start adding security...


"Kerrie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a motorola wireless gateway router sbg900. My desktop has a netgear
>wg111 wireless access point.
> With assistance from my cable provider (telstra bigpond) I have the
> desktop going ok with the router using WEP
> connection with a set key. When I try to connect the COMPAQ 2566AP laptop
> it tells me that it can see the network
> named (Motorola43fs) but I can never get it to actually connect to it. To
> make sure both network name and key are identical I
> cut and paste both. I am running XP pro with service pack 2.
>
> Any suggestions please?????
>