Trouble connecting to Wireless Network with T40

Hi,
My girlfriend and I are on vacation and renting an apartment with wireless access and though she is able to connect with her much newer laptop I am having trouble. My laptop is an IBM T40 (2373), running Win2000 with the following wireless card
Cisco Systems PCI Wireless LAN Adapter #2
Driver Provider Cisco
Driver Date 4-2-2002
Driver Version 3.4.9.0
We were given what they called a username (lets say ourusername) and a password (lets say ourpassword)
After she has connected if I look at her properties it shows on the connectin tab ourusername for both the name and ssid and on the security tab is shows securty type - no authentication, encryption type WEP and dots for the network security key which presumably correspond to the password which we were given and she was prompted for when she connected.
The problem is that if I look at the properties for my wireless connection there is no place to enter the password and no mention of WEP. Is the problem that my driver is too old (forgive the lack of a question mark, and some of the other strange punctuation - on top of everything else her keyboard is laid out for spanish and I cant find a many of the punctuation marks). I should mention that I know that my hardware works as I use this card on public access points all of the time. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
-ts1971

Well try upgrading the firmware of the router & keep on holding tightly
the reset button in such a way that power light is blinking on the
router & then do a complete network power cycle i.e., unplug the power
cables from the modem & from the router & then plug in the power cable
to the modem first once all the lights are solid green you could plug
in the power cable to the router & check out it will definately work!!
Open the setup page of router using 192.168.1.1 then put in the password as admin...
all you need to do is do the wireless settings such as Radio Band Frequency to Standard 20 MHZ frequency,channel to 11.
Also,the advanced wireless settings to Beacon Interval=50,Frag
thres=2306 & Rts thres=2307 & then uncheck a Block Anonymous Internet
Requests & it will definately work!!!

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