Loose wifi when adding a networking device to my Fios Actiontec router

Ok so here's the story:
I switched to FIOS from another company recently. So far so good. I have a main hard wired desktop and 2 laptops w/wifi. All runon Window Vista
Starting about 2 weeks, ago, I coudn't connect wiressly anymore. I tried everything (re-booting, re-installing, etc etc, you name it). All I would get was "Local Access Only" (on all 3 computers) when trying to go wireless.
I spent a good while with a VZ tech on chat and in the end, he decided it was best to send me a new router.
The new router arrived today. And go figure, that was not the issue. I connect everything as instructed and still would have no wi-fi.
So..after much thought, I decided to unplug my Aruba Networks device from the router. It's one of those devices used to download data from a hand held computer like the one's UPS drivers use: http://www.arubanetworks.com/
AND! now it works like a char, wi-fi back on, on all 3 computers, fast, no problem.
I a assuming that there's some sort of networking/IP/whatever conflict between the Aruba controller and the router. Problem is, my boyfriend really needs it connected and I really need my wi-fi. So...any idea how I would go about adding this device to the router without causing any conflicts to my network?
THANKS!
Alex
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Has your boyfriend rerun the provisioning process since you switched to FIOS?
There is a quickstart guide here:
http://community.arubanetworks.com/aruba/attachments/aruba/unified-wired-wireless-access/23814/1/RAP...
That quickstart doesn't give any information on how the RAP-2WG interfaces with a local LAN.
You're probably going to have to get you boyfriend's IT department involved.
My guess is that the Aruba device is trying to "own" the 192.168.1.x subnet, which is what the FIOS router uses.

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