Wireless working to my desktop, not to my laptop!

Help me please! I have a cable modem connected to an airport base station which provides wireless signal for my G5, my powerbook and my wife's PC laptop. Things have been going crazy lately but as of today, I have a wireless signal which I can pick up on my desktop but which neither laptop seems to recognize. The laptops show that they see the signal and the right wireless signal is selected but it will not open any pages. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

stu1270,
Need some more information. Is this the first wireless system you have had or have to changed to the Apple System or between two Airports. I you have changed don't call your system the same name as the old system nor use the same password. You didn't say what kind of an Airport you had (Express, Old Extreme or New Extreme). What Utility did you use or are trying to use - Airport Utility (New Extreme) or Airport Admin Utility (Old Extreme or Express).
Give some more detail of how you tried to set up the system and your equipment.

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