I'm really lost with this. I'm in the aforementioned friend's shed with a system running on XP. It is linking to a Netgear router and seems to work well. However, my Sony laptop does not . . . and it's my only link to reality apart from breaking into here every night
Modern-ish Vaio running Vista.
Sony worked at daughter's house in London over long period. Hauled it to deepest Essex and it does not connect.
Signal is 5 Bars. Shows NETGEAR. However . . .
"The setting saved on this computer for the network do not match the requirements of the network."
It shows no other signals in the area. Edit: Brief low-power signal came on a moment ago, but went again.
IT NEVER ASKS FOR A PASSWORD.
Momentary flickering messages when cursor touches blue band (the one with NETGEAR showing as only signal.)
WPA 802.11g SSID Netgear.
I'll post this now for fear of losing it, then edit.
Went to manual-select and got list of existing routers it would link with. Deleted the only NETGEAR listed. It then asked for a password. 'admin' entered. I believe this to be correct, and indeed, it shouts no-go if I try another one. Great hopes I solved it but right back to square one. Well, perhaps not. It tells me I might have the incorrect security type. WEP was set I think. Toying with that now, but freeeeeezing after living in 90f temps.
