[ripdog]

with so little info to go on here all I can do is give you my experience with this. My wife has a DoD laptop with massive amounts of security on it. When she comes home with it and we want to hook it up to the wireless network we have to shut down the desktop, and shut off the DSL modem and router. We wait a few minutes then turn on the modem and then router (in that order), wait a minute or two and start up her laptop. After a minute or two it connects.

Does your laptop find the network and not connect? We also have our router MAC enabled so that it will only recognize our desktop and her laptop. I'd start simple and dig deeper if needed. You may want to disable the security features on your router until you get your laptop connected, then add them back in one by one.