Setting Up Wireless

I spent probably three hours this evening trying to get my new Netgear WGR614 set up, and ran into some trouble. First, despite all indicator lights working fine, I wasn't able to connect to the Internet. This was eventually resolved by making sure that I told the router to make a connection.

Then, I had trouble setting up the wireless network. Everything seemed to be set up correctly, and diagnostics on the router showed that it was working, but for some reason I just simply couldn't get it to work on my laptop.

Finally, just a few minutes ago, I realized there's a button on the side of my laptop. It had an icon that seemed to be consistent with the notion of "wireless", so I switched it to "on". Problem solved.

[Cross-posted at Between Worlds]