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Belkin Network
While the Belkin router (F5D8232-4 }seemed to be fine, the Belkin adapter (F5D8055) only arrived yesterday. Since then, I have been trying to get the network operational between my rigs, of which the first is running W7, and the second is running XP MCE (since the W7 drive died). Both OSs are set to use a work type of network, and via hardwire, the secondary is visible on the primary, as far as files are concerned, the opposite is not true on the secondary. However, that is not the issue that I'm looking at now, it is the fact that neither is visible to the other using WIFI.
With the wireless enabled on the router, it displays a padlock at the far right side of it's display, where the wireless connection should be, and using the wireless utility on the secondary, it shows a one private and one public network that it is receiving, but not my own.
I don't think that the problem is in any kind of defect in the hardware...just in my management of it. Since the configuration seemed to work with both OSs hardwired and running W7, and for what I can tell, the same is true with the mixed boot, I haven't changed anything in the router's configuration.
Last evening, when I decided to take a break, I disabled the wireless with the Notification Trays icon, which caused it to disappear, leaving another icon that doesn't seem to do anything when clicked, and opening the wireless utility no longer shows any networks available. Therefore, before I go proceed, I need to at least get it to receive the networks that I mentioned before. After that, I need to find a means to get each rig to see the other. I realize that I haven't given much to go on, because I really don't know where to begin. Does anyone?