Problems hooking up Inspiron 6000 with Router WRT54GS

We have a WRT54GS that has been set up and working wonderfully. My son just came home from college with his laptop (Dell Inspiron 6000 with wireless card, etc) and I wanted to hook it up also.
I think I'm missing a setting somewhere because, although I've entered the MAC into the router MAC filter list and the laptop shows our network name, I cannot get the laptop to connect. I get the prompt for our password, enter it, and then it just can't connect. Any suggestions as to what I've done wrong or what should I be checking? I've spent far too much time on this today.

It sounds like you have a wired computer connected to the router and that this computer is able to access the Internet without any problems. Is this correct? If so, then your basic router setup is complete. But it also sounds like you have never connected a computer wirelessly to this router. Is this correct? Normally, wireless would be turned on by default. So the only settings that you normally need to change are the wireless security settings.
You mentioned that you were using MAC address filtering. On the same page where you "Enable" wireless MAC address filtering, make sure you have marked the option "Permit only PC's listed .....". Then enter the MAC address of your son's laptop in the "MAC Address Filter List". Be sure to click on "Save Settings" on both of these pages, and wait for the page to refresh (3 to 60 seconds).
Have you checked to see if your son has the Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg card? You can check this in "Device Manager", under the heading of "Network Adapters".

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