Internet access went away?

[Paul H]

I have both Ethernet and wireless available in my house. I have 5 laptops
and one desktop networked in this house.

Our cable modem and/or router had a problem yesterday morning. I replaced
the router and everything went back to normal except one XP laptop.

Three of my other laptops are Vista, the rest of the computers a XP. But I
somehow messed up my XP laptop - the one I use to make money on.

I did a restore from the previous day. That fixed a different problem but
did not solve the internet problem.

This laptop has a switch that toggles "Wireless disabled" and "wireless
enabled" at the bottom of the screen. This has stopped working. I have
used connection wizard and have done repair. Nada. When I attempt
wireless, it does ask for my encryption code, then tries for a little while,
then gives up.

Ideas, anyone? TIA, Paul

 

[dizzyd]

I have both Ethernet and wireless available in my house. I have 5 laptops
and one desktop networked in this house.

Our cable modem and/or router had a problem yesterday morning. I replaced
the router and everything went back to normal except one XP laptop.

Three of my other laptops are Vista, the rest of the computers a XP. But I
somehow messed up my XP laptop - the one I use to make money on.

I did a restore from the previous day. That fixed a different problem but
did not solve the internet problem.

This laptop has a switch that toggles "Wireless disabled" and "wireless
enabled" at the bottom of the screen. This has stopped working. I have
used connection wizard and have done repair. Nada. When I attempt
wireless, it does ask for my encryption code, then tries for a little while,
then gives up.

Ideas, anyone? TIA, Paul

Is it an Acer laptop? I had a similar problem with one once. Have you tried
re-installing the drivers from the manufactuer web-site? They may have
updated them anyhow. Hope this helps

 

[Paul H]

Yup, it's an Acer. But there is no reason the drivers changed. I'm not up
to the effort it would take to do what you suggest.

My updates are up-to-date, as is my anti-virus (Avast) and spy-ware
(AdAware).

So unless someone can tell me why both my Ethernet and my wireless are being
ignored, I'll restore everything from my StorageCraft backup - even the OS -
fortunately I took one last week.

 

[Mark Adams]

Yup, it's an Acer. But there is no reason the drivers changed. I'm not up
to the effort it would take to do what you suggest.

Really? Drivers are easy to download and install. I would certainly try that
before restoring from a backup. Besides, you'll probably need the updated
drivers sooner or later anyway.