Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless (More info?)

I recently had to rebuild my operating environment on my laptop.
Unfortunately, I lost all my wireless settings.
The wireless worked well before I trashed my old hard drive while trying to
clone it to a new, larger drive.

I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 and the matching wireless PCMCIA card in the
laptop.

I'm using WEP encryption and generated a 128 bit key. I entered that key in
the wireless network card setup. I can now see the router's name in my list
of available wireless services, and I have an excellent signal reported by
the wireless card properties.

I have entered IP, DNS and the rest of the info for the TCP/IP properties.

The problem I am having is that the laptop cannot access the network and
cannot be seen by the network.

IPCONFIG/ALL identifies the card, but DHCP is not enabled. All other info is
present, IP, Subnet, Def Gatewy, DNS server, okay.

I cannot PING any of the other computers, but the router is reporting a LINK
and shows a flashing ACT LED when the laptop tries to access Network
Neighborhood.

Since I have a signal, can see the router broadcasting and ID, I assume the
WEP key is correctly configured for the portable. However, I'm not sure if
there may be some issue with WEP that is stopping the laptop from accessing
the network, or if it's some other oversight.

I'm running out of ideas, and I've spent the last 56 hours rebuilding the
laptop, installing all my apps, troubleshooting and patching and getting it
all back to where it was. I'm 90% there, but still have no wireless
functionality. I'm tired and the answer is probably right under my nose, but
I must be too tired to notice it.

"NO network provider accepted the given path" is the error I get when trying
to access a shared drive on any other PC on the LAN.

Any suggestions what else I should check for?

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