I am currently running a Dell desktop with Vista , and I'm trying to use my
wireless connection on my laptop that is running XP. When I'm on the laptop
it shows my wireless network in range , I try to connect and a pop up comes
up and says " Please wait while Windows connects to the network... waiting
for network to be ready. " .... then nothing happens.

Is this maybe a problem with my desktops configuration, or am I
just missing something simple ?

You don't say how you have your wireless network set up; or even if you have
one.
Are you using a wireless router?

"Michael" wrote:

> I am currently running a Dell desktop with Vista , and I'm trying to use my
> wireless connection on my laptop that is running XP. When I'm on the laptop
> it shows my wireless network in range , I try to connect and a pop up comes
> up and says " Please wait while Windows connects to the network... waiting
> for network to be ready. " .... then nothing happens.
>
> Is this maybe a problem with my desktops configuration, or am I
> just missing something simple ?
>