Nintendo DS wifi trauma

In an attempt to use my DS online at home I bought a cheap, nasty USB wireless adaptor to create an ad-hoc network and share my laptop's internet connection. My DS is an old school 1st gen one and official Nintendo USB adaptors are well rare and pretty expensive these days.

Anyway, after hours of downloading and googling, I got the thing installed although getting the software for it, ZDWLan Utilities, to work on either Windows XP or Windows 7. It does work though on the Windows 7 computer and I've connected through it and on to the internet just fine using my phone.

I'm fucked if I can get the DS to work on it though.

The best I can get is it being detected but then giving error 51301 which more googling tells me is to do with WEP settings but I'm getting the error even with the network set to un-secured. I think maybe if I manually enter the IP address and so forth it might work but although I can find the IP address and Subnet number for the wireless adaptor, I'm buggered if I can find the DNS settings anywhere.

Any help at all would be gratefully accepted, otherwise I'm just going to have to buy one of the expensive, official ones.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Quite, we do have a wireless network but not using WEP encryption. I found out that the football club I do the bookkeeping at has a nice, unsecured wireless network I can jump on to do some Pokemon trades when I visit there and I picked up an unsecured network on my phone when I walked down our road the other day so once I work out which house to stand near I can use their's on sunny days.

I'm not overly bothered about getting it to work, I just figured I'd give it a go, not realising how ridiculously complicated it is.

At some point I'll buy a more up to date DS.

There's nowhere I can't reach.