Wireless Connection Unavailable

[Jeff]

I have a Linksys Wireless PCI card. It has worked
flawlessly on one machine with XP for many months. I
decided to put the wireless card in my other XP machine,
loaded the drivers and my signal strength
was "excellent". Even though it was "excellent" I could
not pull up a web page sometimes. Then the signal itself
started dropping. Now I cannot get any signal at all.

I check the "Allow to connect to selected wireless
network" box and click "Connect". The pop up box on the
system tray icon says that "Wireless network is
available". But when I put my cursor over that same icon
in the system tray or open the Network Connection screen,
it says that "Wireless connection is unavailable".

The device is "enabled" and "working properly".

Network authentication is "Open".

Data ecryption is "Disabled".

I'm not using WEP.

IEEE82.1x authentication is "Disabled".

Computer to computer network box in Unchecked.

Latest drivers are Installed.

I put the card back in my other machine and the
connnection works great.

I have read Linksys' faqs but their suggestions don't
solve the problem. The article links on their site are
broken and their 24 hour tech support apparently is only
24 hours a week.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Jeff

 

[Manny]

Jeff,

I have/had a very similar problem. I use a wireless
ethernet adapter, nevertheless, I was getting the exact
same symptons. I traced my steps back and found out that
these problems started to occur when I added a USB 2.0
Hub to my computer. I have talked to Microsoft support
and they have indicated that there really isn't anythng
they can do....Nevertheless, my network is working fine,
but I can't add anymore USB devices.

I hope this helps.

Manny