Problems connecting Windows XP laptop to Windows 7 network...

[CaptainQuirk]

As the title says... having some trouble. One of my brother's friends from China is staying the week with us and he has a laptop with XP and I can't figure out how to get him connected to our 7 network...

Here's what the network looks like (dotted=wireless) (red=not working)
[img]http://sieabah.net/quirk/browsable/img/network.png[/img]

Anyone know of any problems that might cause it to not work, or where I can find instructions to make it work?

[BananasGoMoo]

is it ethernet or wireless. if wireless, try ethernet.

[Lego399]

Are you trying to get him connected to your wireless network?

[CaptainQuirk]

Yes. And we can't do ethernet at the moment, my brother forgot to grab the cable out of his dorm before he left.

[robmaister12]

This wouldn't be a windows 7 network, unless your router is running windows 7. You just have a computer with windows 7 on it connected to the network.

Could you possibly explain what is going wrong when you try to connect the XP laptop to the network? Does it return an error? Do nothing?

[Protocol7]

Yeah, we need to know if you're successfully connected using your WEP/WPA key or not, among other things like uh what the problem is.

[BmB]

Uninstall norton.