I was setting up a neighbors network last night and ran into some issues. He bought all MS hardware - a wireless router with 4 ports, a wireless card for the laptop and a USB wireless NIC for another PC.

I hooked up the router to the main desktop (wired) and got things going without problems. Then I tried the laptop and get stuck in an infinite loop. It tells me to select which network it found (there's only 1 on the list), and I do - then it waits a couple seconds and then tells me it cannot configure the base station. No matter what I do next, I get back to where there's one network to connect to, it tries, and then I get the dialog about the base station.

Giving up, I went up stairs to connect the other PC and it went off without a hitch. That one even saw two networks (mine across the street), but I chose his and it found the base station fine. Works perfectly.

The only thing I could track down was the the MS Broadband software had already been installed on the laptop. So I removed it, then started from scratch - but still no luck.

Any suggestions? I've mostly only worked with Linksys stuff before, and those install screens make more sense. Note that WEP, etc. isn't configured yet. Help!