I bought a couple of wireless adapters for our other computers and have been having all sorts of trouble getting them to connect. For a couple of days I’ve been searching the internet for a solution, uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, trying all kinds of things. I couldn’t fathom it – the first adapter I’d set up a few weeks ago on my new Dell laptop was working fine. But I couldn’t get it to work in any other machine, and I couldn’t get any of the new adapters to work on the Dell.
It turns out I had “mis-remembered” the password set in my router a couple of weeks ago. As soon as I entered the correct password they all connected up like a dream. It’s called an id10t error …