I have an Alienware Area 51 Sentia Laptop with a Centrino Laptop (builtin wifi) running Win XP with SP2. At home, I'm using a Zoom X6 ADSL modem with built-in wireless capabilities.

I tried last night to connect to my wifi network at home using Win XP's wireless connection features. When I search for wireless networks within range, it finds my home network and detects it's a restricted network (I'm using WPA passcode to limit). When I select the network and press connect, a window opens that says "detecting network type" with a progress bar that never moves. A couple of seconds later it says "the network is no longer available, check you're within range and so on...". I know the network is OK because my wife's laptop is able to connect with no problem (she has a compaq with a built-in super atheros G wireless adapter).

Could it be because of the WPA encription? I'm using the intel WLAN driver which came with my laptop, which is a couple of years old. I tried looking on the intel site for an upgrade to my driver, but I can't find one. Alienware unfortunately is terrible in driver support for their machines, so this is no help either.

Any recommendations?

Thanks!

SOLE2000