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EDIT: try this with the built in card on the laptop, and disabling the dell software.

whats the make and model of the laptop? What Operating system? and what is the brand of the USB wireless card?

I assume you are using whatever program came with the wireless card to connect to the network. With my experience, that's where all my problems have been. The shitty software that comes with the wireless adapter. Ironically, one of the things that windows XP is rather good at is connecting to wireless networks(ironically, because it works, period). I forget where the exact setting is, but if you open up

Start > Control Panel > (switch to classic view if you haven't) Network Connections.

Look for your wireless network adaptor. If you have problems identiying which one is which, it is not one named 1934, it usually wont have the words gigabit or LAN, and oftentimes it has 802.11 in the name.

Anyways, right click it, and click properties. Somewhere in one of the tabs closer to the right, there should be a setting 3/4 of the way down the page saying "Use Wireless Zero for Configuration" or something similar to that. Check that box, and close the program that you currently use for connecting. You should see a new wireless icon down in the taskbar. right click it, then click connect to network



If any of tht gives you an error along the way, open up
Start > control Panel > Administrative tools > Services.

scroll down to Wieless zero configuration, right click it, set it to automatic, and then click the start button. click OK to close that window. then try the above steps again