Linksys wusb11 not passing IP

Hello all

I recently got a Liknsys WUSB11 802.11b nic for a user and the access point to go with it, part of a pair of people physically removed but not far away from the rest of the infrastructure. whats happening is the one user whose access isperfect is using a 98 machine with the nic v2.5 The other machine NOT passing data is a 2000SP2 machine. otherwise, all settings in the config for the two of them are identical. ad hoc mode, fixed IP’s within the limit set by linksys, same segment, everything. Anybody face this before?