Originally posted by Gunslinger
Yea I have WPA enabled and it seems I have to enable SSID or my wife's nic card won't connect then reconnect. Like I said it's an older crappy wireless NIC i'm pretty sure most of my problems will go away if I upgrad to a newer 802.11G card. My older router was pretty crappy too but this new one is pretty good. I still can't figure out how to use the "automated security setup" basically you are supposed to push a button and then have all the other computers login and it automatically secures the network and sets up the user ends. I just did it the manual way.
PS I don't use linksys software, I foud it to be really crappy, I stick to windows connection.
My advice is, don't believe in "automatic... whatever". I mean, if you want to have it secure and you want to know what's going on, do it yourself.
Of course if you want it to "just work", use the easiest way
With a windows built-in wireless connection manager, you can add your connection (with the hidden SSID) manually and to have a auto conncet (reconnect) for this connection :-)
Kicking-off you mentioned, can be caused by the software. i would:
1) upgrade to the latest drivers for the NIC,
2) apply all M$ patches (there is one for WPA2 for example)
3) make sure you are using the same settings for both NIC/AP.
I had similar problem and i fixed it while a changed the security settings of my network... probably the NIC had a problem with something about WPA ;-)