Sorry for the late reply.....
I'd suggest for you to remove the encryption from the router, see if you can connect, then put it back again. Make sure that you are using WPA2 with AES encryption. If it still an issue, update your Wi-Fi network adapter's driver to the latest.
Another update of your progress will be nice.
When I disabled my linksys my troubled machine was still reporting the network was still locked? How could this be? My rosewell has the latest drivers
if I disable my wireless SSID broadcast in linksys, this should not allow my xp machine with the rosewell "see" my network, hence not be able to use it, correct? I am troubleshoot right now, is why I ask. Thx
Ok, well I had to turn the network mode to "mixed". (which I think is what ultimately fixed it) I enabled my Linksys firewall, and disabled my ssid. Somehow, my xp machine rosewell is still able to make the connection to Linksys...but it just does not populate Linksys as a available network. (invisible) Guess I don't quite understand how that part of it works...and really do not want to. I will monitor this for now and mark as "solved? Cheers
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