Quick wireless question.
Right now, my wife’s laptop is not reading my connection from my wireless router (let’s call it HUBZILLA). She has one of those Wi-Fi hotspot cards on her XP Home computer. It is reading “OperationIraqiFreedom” when you View Available Wireless Networks. It’s encrypted and presumably from the nearby army base.
The problem is it is the only available network and seems to block out “HUBZILLA”, with a red mark on the antennae icon. She cannot access the internet or anything, since she doesn’t know the key for “OperationIraqiFreedom” (obviously) . I tried re-booting the router, the modem, and her laptop, all to no avail. Funny thing is, it does not affect my desktop.
Is there a way I could set her computer’s card to ONLY look for the “HUBZILLA” signal and ignore all others (including “OperationIraqiFreedom”).
This happened once before, and after a while, the “OperationIraqiFreedom” went away.
If I may verify… when you choose “view available wireless networks” a new window opens. In it is said " choose a wireless network" but there are no other networks to choose from. I don’ mean to insult but can I ask if you clicked “refresh network list” from “network tasks” on the left of this window? If there is a choice given to include hubzilla then under “related tasks” (below “network tasks”) you can change the order of preferred networks.
The other thing that first comes to mind as a start point is if you are broadcasting the SSID from the wireless router and that the laptop is in range to recieve a quality signal. Broadcast SSID is not always required if the network is setup in advance but most people prefer the ease of doing it this way. I wouldn’t know about your router but try checking this. Router default could be http://192.168.0.1/ .
Otherwise a great deal of wireless info can be had by installing on the laptop a good tool called netstumbler,
this will tell you what raw signals are being picked up as well as if the ssid is broadcast and if the connections are encrypted.
wag is that they are both on the same channel and intefering. Try changing to another channel.