Ethernet OK Wifi KO

[Daniel Royer]

My son's laptop is a Dell Inspiron 6400. XP SP2. Router is Netopia 3342.
Problem: when connected through Ethernet things are OK. When on wifi,
the internet connection works for a short while and then goes dead
(Firefox and IE alike). When he turns on and off the router and reboots
the computer the same thing happens.

any ideas?

Daniel

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Check the Authentication options in your wireless network adapter's settings
and make sure that you don't have 802.1x authentication enabled. You'll
find this by opening the Network Connections icon in Control Panel,
right-clicking your wireless adapter there, selecting Properties, then the
Authentication tab.

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[Daniel Royer]

* Richard G. Harper wrote, On 23/08/2006 11:46:

Check the Authentication options in your wireless network adapter's settings
and make sure that you don't have 802.1x authentication enabled. You'll
find this by opening the Network Connections icon in Control Panel,
right-clicking your wireless adapter there, selecting Properties, then the
Authentication tab.

Thanks Richard. Will do!

Daniel

 

[Guest]

It is possible you have the same problem as me (see next post). It is
unlikely to be authentication because, if it was, the 802.11 connection would
not work at all. After it fails enter ipconfig /all at the command prompt.
You should see your WIFI connection and the wired connection. If the WIFI
connection looks strange as in no IP address or you have TWO WIFI connections
you have the problem I had.

I suspect this is an undocumented feature of the Microsoft TCP/IP
implementation, hope I'm wrong.

Regards