Signal strength is fine. Laptop on wireless connects just fine.
Connection on problem pc is fine.
Your answers are not quite clear...
"Laptop on wireless connects just fine" has nothing at all
to do with what signal strength is seen by the PC that does
not connect/work properly. I was not suggesting an idea
that there are no wifi signals in the air, rather that the
system may not be receiving or sending at sufficient signal
strength. While you also wrote "connection on problem pc is
fine", we don't know exactly what that means- only you have
the system in front of you.
Yes. Router indicated that nic card was online, and nic card did light
up.
Ok, that helps to clarify, but it doesn't exclude a bad
signal stength as a potential problem.
No. Not with the wireless card.
Then this is the area to focus on, determination of what the
applicable settings are. You didn't describe the rest of
your wifi equipment though, or did I overlook it? Are you
using something like a wifi router with DHCP function, and
only that, or more, like another router as a wifi access
point or ???
But even if I put in the regular nic
first, and set that up, actually, had both in at the same time, and
the wireless didn't work.
Don't have them both in at the same time, it's only
additional complications that should be avoided until at
least one works alone, and the other works alone. Then with
both installed, one is bound to the internet connection.
Itself yes. Anything else no. Well, actually, it could ping the
router, when I manually added a gateway and subnet mask. No DHCP
though.
Determine why no DHCP. It appears the card, motherboard,
etc, are working, that the problem is either windows or the
wifi lan itself.
Not available on wireless. works with wired.
You didn't describe the equipment, but it's often (usually?)
available over wireless too unless you'd set specific
security settings. So I wonder what "not available" means,
do you mean "Not supported" or do you mean "couldn't get it
to work"?
Your answers are insufficient.
Assume I did the troubleshooting stuff. I did a lot of troubleshooting
before asking here.
That may be true, but until you tell us exactly what you
did, you'd be wasting our time. We cannot assume you did
"the troubleshooting stuff" because in the end, "the
troubleshooting stuff" will find the problem.
So you see now? Some of that "stuff" you didn't do, and
without knowing exactly what you did do, we can't know what
you didn't, either.
Or, not. I've had wired and wireless running at the same time on other
systems, and it worked just fine when I pulled either out. So, this is
just not applicable.
Not at same time, the operating system assigns priority to
one of them. You might have both installed but the OS
should be using one, not the other, always... it will use
the one with priority and only try the next one if the first
doesn't work, so they're not "at same time".
But why would it work yesterday, and not today?
Do you want your problem solved?
This may not solve it, but if you're going to spend a lot of
time wondering instead of trying, and can't even tell us
what you have tried in concise terms including concise
answers, you may find interest waning.
Umm. Anything relating to connecting over a network to anything other
than the problem computer. The physical 'network' is there. either
wired, or wireless. It works there. But the actual network access.
Connecting to another computer. Connecting to the internet. Pinging
anything other than itself.
Yes. Nothing but itself.
Another incomplete answer.
Goodbye.
