Lost all wireless ability

[Guest]

This one is driving me crazy. My bosses laptop no longer connects to the
internet wirelessly. At the same time he had the problem with his Thinkpad
his wife had lost her wireless ability with her vaio. I had him bring in his
DI-524 router and was able to get the vaio with the D-Link card connected and
working properly. No such luck with the Thinkpad with a centrino processor.
I bought a Linksys wireless router and set to the bare essentials with no
encryption. The problem is that the Thinkpad gets an IP address from the
router. It shows signal strength as excellent. And that's as far as you
get. You can't ping the router. Do an IPconfig and you have a DHCP address
from the router and all the required IP properties. I can even do static IP
and still can not ping the router. Once I get to ping successfully I'm sure
the problem is cured. I have tried everything. Drivers, XP updates,
removing all previously saved wireless configurations and no go.

Help!!!!!!!!!

 

[hogyu]

I realize these random ideas probably aren't much help, but perhaps you
could get some clues by wiring a second computer to the router and looking
at the properties pages while the laptop is "connected" (i.e., has gotten a
DHCP address) to the router wirelessly. Do the router property pages show
the laptop as connected? MAC limitations on clients? Encryption settings? I
guess you probably already did a hard reset on the router while you were
getting the other laptop to work? If XP is managing the wireless connection,
are things any different if you disable Windows' management and use the
client software that came with the router? Router firmware?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. I did do a hard reset on the D-Link router. Then was
able to get the sony to work. Still no luck with the Stinkpad. I then
purchased a Linksys router for troubleshooting purposes. No encryption and
basic configuration. As simple as I could make it. I can try hooking up
another PC to the hard wire and try to ping the wireless but expect a no
reply as the wireless gets no reply when pinging the router. I have tried to
let windows control the wireless connection. Still no luck. My next step is
to uninstall and reinstall both the wireless hardware in device manager.
Remove the client wireless software and see what happens. I'll keep you
posted as I will be working desperately on this Wednesday.

Ken

 

[Jack]

Hi
May be this can Help.
Wireless - Basic Configuration: http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).