[Repo Man]

My aunt has a daughter who lives next door. My aunt hasn't gotten any sort of internet service for the computer I put together for her in the two years she's had it. Her daughter has DSL, with a combination DSL modem/wireless router. She had mentioned maybe getting her mom's computer on their DSL with a wireless NIC. Her roomate had used a laptop at my aunt's house, and the reception was good.

As a Christmas present, I bought one and installed it. It went fairly smothly, but I didn't get anywhere until I set a fixed IP. Once I did that, it would connect, with good signal strength. But no internet.

The DSL service they have comes with a software disk that has mostly unnecessary junk. I had a friend here who used it, and it bogged down his machine. He was connected with a standard NIC, so I ran the network wizard, and entered his user name and password, and he was able to sign on without their excess baggage. But I couldn't figure out a way to enter the user name and password with the wireless connection. I decided that I had to use the SBC Yahoo software after all, since it must have a way to enter a user name and password with a wireless NIC. But my cousin's roomate didn't know where it was, and didn't feel like looking (quote: "It isn't my problem you wanted to do this today."). I live close to four hours drive away, and no one will be able to do this in my absence.

Out of desperation, I even called up Dlink's technical support, hoping that somehow the wireless card was configured incorrectly. But we ran through everything, and he suggested I call the ISP since the card seemed to be working properly. It was the day after Christmas, so I doubt they were open. And I was sure they would tell me to install the software that they include in their DSL package. And I was out of time because I had to drive home.

Is there a way to set up a wireless connection that includes a name and a password with Windows XP alone, without any third party software?