Do you have the correct SSID name?  usually for a Free Spot, the name "any" is used without the quotes.  Ask if they have enabled MAC filtering.  If so, your card's MAC Address will have to be added for access.

Yes, I do have what they have told me is the correct SSID and they do not use MAC filtering.  Wifi connection works great in my house with every security feature turned on, just not at the library.

I'll just keep scratching my head on this one.

 

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SSID, MAC Filtering, and passwords are the only way to lock you out of a hot spot.  Ask them what the settings are or better yet, download a program named Netstumbler and that will scan for any available Hotspot and give you the name of the device being use (Linksys, Cisco, , etc).

If it is truly open and they are using say, Linksys, the SSID would be linksys with no password.  Please remember that custom SSID names are case specific.  Linksys does not equal linksys.

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My laptop does detect the router on its own.  The info they hand out to help people connect says to change the information that is being broadcast by the router (I've tried it both ways just in case).

Apparently there is a problem and the people that installed the equipment will be coming down to investigate.  Just weird that my Axim (which I love, by the way) would connect fine and the laptop would not.  It appears I'm not the only person that has been having this problem.

Set your SSID to "any" without the quotes and see if that helps.

Actually I have not been able to surf on my 8600 when using the Intel Pro to control the 2200. I can only connect when XP is controling it.

I have a brand new Latitude D600 and have experienced similar issues.  A personal telco node and my own personal network work fine, but I have had problems with all commercial ones.  I finally got connected just now, and I am not totally sure how (I mean I had a connection before but no browsing ability as you describe).  Here's what I did: I called the hotspot's support line - I suspected maybe a popup blocker in the default Dell software or something.  He had me go to http://1.1.1.1 and log in - I don't know if this is specific to the provider (thinlines) though.  Also, I ended up disabling my virus protection briefly when I logged in (I don't know if this did anything or not since I re-enabled it later) and also adding their site to my trusted (https) sites.  I also modified my security settings a bit to make them more lenient with secure certificates, etc.  Never did find a popup blocker, but somehow now this connection is working.  We'll see if other networks work or if its always a huge hassle.

I experienced the very same problem with my Inspirion 700m on my home network.  The 2200bg would connect fine to the network with a strong signal, but I could not get to any pages on the internet.  Occasionally, it would upload a page, but take a long time to download (matter of minutes for a single page).  I tried a Linksys wifi PC card, and it worked fine.  I went to the Intel site and found a solution that seems to have worked.

Go to the network card configuration and deselect the Use default setting for Power Management.  Then move the slider from Lowest to Highest.  I know someone else who just purchased a Dell Inspirion 8600 and is experiencing the same problem with his Intel 2200bg.  I will try the solution on his laptop tomorrow.