Couldn't find a wireless network

[vhzaldivar]

I recently change mi OS to Vista Business in a Dell Inspiron 9400.
Everything was running smoothly except for the wireless networking. In the
first place I could connect to the wireless network at the office without any
problem, then, since I have a wired network I turned off the wireless radio
with Windows Mobility Center. The problem arised when I wasn't able to
connect to the wireless network at home, and then with no wireless networks
at all. I spend a lot of (frustrating) time searching for a solution and
find that the online and offline help from Vista is, almost useless.

Then I went into the community forums and following a post about resetting
the wireless devices I found the problem. It is so stupid that should not
have happened in the first place.... Let me describe it to you...

The radio was turned off and then with Windows Update I installed all the
available updates, which included an updated driver for the IntelPROWireless
device. When the driver was installed the set up was done with mistaken
attributes and those prevented the adapter from finding any network (it was
set to search for 802.11a networks).

So the solution was simple. Go to Computer -> (right-click) Properties ->
Device Manager
then find the wireless network adapter right-click -> Properties select the
Advanced tab and find the Wireless Mode, for me it worked fine setting it in
6. 802.11a/b/g

Hope this helps. Cheers

Víctor

 

[Mr. Arnold]

The radio was turned off and then with Windows Update I installed all the
available updates, which included an updated driver for the
IntelPROWireless
device. When the driver was installed the set up was done with mistaken
attributes and those prevented the adapter from finding any network (it
was
set to search for 802.11a networks).

One doesn't allow driver updates for this very reason. If one needs a driver
update, then one goes to the device's Web site and does it manually. If a
driver update for a device is coming from MS in a Windows Update, it should
be avoided. All it takes is to get burnt one or two times on driver updates
from MS to know to avoid them.