Mac Mini Airport won't allow my HP laptop to connect!

[Utahmedic]

I'm sorry, I've committed Mac treason. I was forced to buy an HP laptop for work. At home I need to connect to the internet and figure that the Mac mini has an Airport so I should be able to connect. However, on the HP 6910p laptop side I try to connect after the mac shows up with a strong signal and the HP drops a message that the signal might be out of range or can't connect...blah blah blah!. I don't know enough to do much other than screw things up. The Mac is set up to connect to the internet through the airport...a friend hooked my son's Wii to it a while ago. So what do I have to do to connect the HP?

Help?

 

[Eidorian]

It's a computer not a country.

Is the laptop running Windows Vista? What version of OS X is on the Mac Mini? Are you using Internet Connection Sharing form the Mac?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928233

 

[Utahmedic]

let me think...

The HP is spankn' new, I had XP put on. NOT VISTA. The mac has...OSX 10.4.11.

 

[Utahmedic]

I'm not sure.

A whole lot of this I just don't understand. I'm kind of the take it out of the box and turn it on type user. Not the "out of the box" type. I'm a paramedic so I can poke and prod and keep you alive...just not your computer. If you are asking which is connected to the internet hard line, that is the mac mini.

 

[Utahmedic]

Buhler?...crickets in the background...Buhler?

Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about or am I so low tech that I just don't make sense?