New powerbook with linksys

[YeahSoISwitched]

I know this has probably been solved somewhere, but I looked for a few hours and couldn't find anything that worked. Here is what is going on:

I cannot get my powerbook to connect to my linksys if the SSID is off and encryption is on.

Ideally, this is what I'd like.

I've got two locations with a different wireless network setup in each that i'd like to connect to depending on where i am. In the first network it's a linksys wireless-b router. Right now i have MAC filtering on, WEP, and SSID off. I can't get my powerbook to connect.

In the second location, I've got a linksys wireless-g router. I've got MAC filtering on, WPA, and SSID off. I can't get powerbook to connect.

What do i need to do to set my powerbook up so that no matter which location i am in, it automatically connects?

Thanks a ton

(sorry, i'm new... i just switched)

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Hi YeahSoISwitched and welcome to the forum.

How far away are these two locations? Are these 2 different routers?
Let me reduce the problem on following:
you can't connect your powerbook with airport extreme card (notice: airport ready ≠ airport card incl.) to a wifi router from linksys. For the beginning you should turn off MAC, WPA, WEP and any other filter. Check if you get a signal and make sure your network settings are automatical. If you get a signal, try to access the routers webinterface or simply send ping packages to the routers ip. Once this works, start to turn on MAC, WEP, WPA...

 

[YeahSoISwitched]

Two different houses - two different routers. WRT54G and whatever the wireless b is.

I can get it to connect with the SSID on and no encryption on. But as soon as I turn encryption on or SSID broadcasting off, it doesnt connect. On my WinXP laptop I can manually set the SSID and encryption. how would I do that on the powerbook?