no wireless connections in windows

[Guest]

lost hard drive in presario 2100, bought and installed new drive, reinstalled
windows XP, down loaded and installed drivers for previously installed
linksys wireless-G notebook adapter model WPC54G ver.1.2. "wireless network
connection" is no where in "network connections" thus I have no way to
connect. This worked before I installed the new hard drive.... When I loaded
windows XP should it not install what I need? Where do I go from here?
Thanks

 

[Pennywise]

lost hard drive in presario 2100, bought and installed new drive, reinstalled
windows XP, down loaded and installed drivers for previously installed
linksys wireless-G notebook adapter model WPC54G ver.1.2. "wireless network
connection" is no where in "network connections" thus I have no way to
connect. This worked before I installed the new hard drive.... When I loaded
windows XP should it not install what I need? Where do I go from here?
Thanks

Just a guess, cause yes it should of been installed and be loaded on
startup but...
Start | Run <type in> services.msc <enter>

Make sure "Wireless Zero Config" is running

 

[Roberto]

lost hard drive in presario 2100, bought and installed new drive,
reinstalled
windows XP, down loaded and installed drivers for previously installed
linksys wireless-G notebook adapter model WPC54G ver.1.2. "wireless
network
connection" is no where in "network connections" thus I have no way to
connect. This worked before I installed the new hard drive.... When I
loaded
windows XP should it not install what I need? Where do I go from here?
Thanks

Is the Linksys utility running in the system tray ?, if so you can
create the association/connection there.

rgds
Roberto

 

[Guest]

I downloaded the drivers for the linksys adapter, and it is running, but it
cannot connect with the router, it continually states that it is "searching".
Being computer nieve, I spent an evening trying to figure it out by going
into everything I could find in Windows, I did also find "wireless zero
configure" and it is "started" I even tried to cancle it and try it that
way....Should I try to reload windows XP?
Thnks again

 

[Roberto]

I downloaded the drivers for the linksys adapter, and it is running, but it
cannot connect with the router, it continually states that it is
"searching".
Being computer nieve, I spent an evening trying to figure it out by going
into everything I could find in Windows, I did also find "wireless zero
configure" and it is "started" I even tried to cancle it and try it that
way....Should I try to reload windows XP?
Thnks again

Likely cuprit is different chanels between the router and the NIC

Open up the router and check that the wifi settings are plain vanilla

1. no encryption
2. network mode is mixed [B&G]
3. SSID broadcast is on
4. wireless channel is set the same in both devices [ linksys usually
defaults to ch11]
5. security mode if off

Once you associate then you can add some security [ WPA pre - shared key is
my choice] and or MAC address filtering

rgds
Roberto

 

[Guest]

, I did'nt have a problem up to the point I replaced the hard drive, it
always in the past picked up on the router right away. The problem it seems
is I have no way in the Windows to connect or even tell it to connect to
wireless.."wireless connectivity" just is not there. I will take a look at
the router, but the notebook I use for work hooks right up to it, its just
the one with the new hard drive.
I Appreciate your time.

I downloaded the drivers for the linksys adapter, and it is running, but it
cannot connect with the router, it continually states that it is
"searching".
Being computer nieve, I spent an evening trying to figure it out by going
into everything I could find in Windows, I did also find "wireless zero
configure" and it is "started" I even tried to cancle it and try it that
way....Should I try to reload windows XP?
Thnks again

Likely cuprit is different chanels between the router and the NIC

Open up the router and check that the wifi settings are plain vanilla

1. no encryption
2. network mode is mixed [B&G]
3. SSID broadcast is on
4. wireless channel is set the same in both devices [ linksys usually
defaults to ch11]
5. security mode if off

Once you associate then you can add some security [ WPA pre - shared key is
my choice] and or MAC address filtering

rgds
Roberto