Wireless MAC address filtering

My older Linksys wireless AP router can only do WEP security, so when I got my new HP laptop with built-in WiFi I decided to add wireless MAC address filtering to my router. After some unsuccessful search for the laptop's WiFi MAC address, I discovered that my router can actually display the active MAC addresses even if the filtering is not set. Then I went ahead and wrote that MAC address into the filter list and enabled filtering. All that accomplished was that my laptop got disconnected from the WiFi network. I also have a wireless Internet webcam and that could not connect with MAC filtereing as well, even though its MAC address was entered in the filter list.

I tried to restart the router, the laptop and the webcam but that would not help the situation. I could only connect them to the router with disabled MAC filtering.

Has any of you successfully added MAC address filtering into their wireless home network?
If so, what am I missing?

DB

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