Wireless Network Connection problems

I have an IBM Thinkpad laptop (1.6Gh) with built-in LAN, wireless, and IR.
At home, on my DSL, I have no problems connecting to the roiuter via my
wireless but when I am at a hotel, the only way that I can get my laptop to
connect is to insert a linux live cd in the cd/dvd drive aand reboot. Linux
finds the wireless (as well as all the other hardware) and allows me to
connect to the internet. My wireless is a Red Inalblanca (or some
such...linux says Prism 2.4 Wavelan chip, vendor: Intersil Corporation) and
in Windows, when I click the tray icon (it looks like a little tower), the
wording looks like spanish and I cannot read spanish, so, I do not have any
idea what the heck any of it means! I've tried everything to get it to work
in the motel, including disabling, uninstalling, re-enabling, reinstalling,
etcetera ... all to no avail! It ends up disabling the device and won't
re-enable at all! I end up having to boot the live Linux DVD to get on the
internet!

Thanks all,
James

Hi
Some thing involving the Wireless card and the Wireless connection id not
working right.
May be this can Help.
My Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
Wireless Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"QBall2U" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have an IBM Thinkpad laptop (1.6Gh) with built-in LAN, wireless, and IR.
> At home, on my DSL, I have no problems connecting to the roiuter via my
> wireless but when I am at a hotel, the only way that I can get my laptop
> to
> connect is to insert a linux live cd in the cd/dvd drive aand reboot.
> Linux
> finds the wireless (as well as all the other hardware) and allows me to
> connect to the internet. My wireless is a Red Inalblanca (or some
> such...linux says Prism 2.4 Wavelan chip, vendor: Intersil Corporation)
> and
> in Windows, when I click the tray icon (it looks like a little tower), the
> wording looks like spanish and I cannot read spanish, so, I do not have
> any
> idea what the heck any of it means! I've tried everything to get it to
> work
> in the motel, including disabling, uninstalling, re-enabling,
> reinstalling,
> etcetera ... all to no avail! It ends up disabling the device and won't
> re-enable at all! I end up having to boot the live Linux DVD to get on the
> internet!
>
> Thanks all,
> James

"QBall2U" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>Windows, when I click the tray icon (it looks like a little tower), the
> wording looks like spanish and I cannot read spanish, so, I do not have any
> idea what the heck any of it means!

for goodness sake, spanish?
uninstall the damn thing and re-install using an english language driver.