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Built in wireless will not connect

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HugginItOut

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Hey everyone, I'm not a great with networks and such but here is my problem.

My mom got a hand me down laptop from my sister. It's a sony vaio pcg-k37 running windows xp 32. I was trying to to get the built in wireless from this laptop to connect to our wireless network, but it won't. It sees the network and when I double click on it, it asks for the password. After entering the password, it says it is waiting for the network and that's where it hangs.

I've tried to reinstall the driver for the wireless, but the same problem occurs. I can connect to the wireless by using a separate wireless adapter connected via usb, but it's kind of annoying for that to be hanging off the side as it does.
 
What wifi card does it have?
If you're using encryption on the wifi, what type? (WEP/WPA/WPA2)
 
After googling, I am thinking the card is Atheros based WiFi interface with AGB (AR5212).
The network is WPA2.
 
Had this same problem on my sons netbook and I had to manually set up a wifi connection and then enter the password.
 
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