Wireless Issues

[Guest]

I can no longer connect to my secure home wireless network
using a wireless adapter in either the PCMCIA slot or the USB slot. However,
I can connect to any unsecure wireless network within range without issue
using either. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Are the
settings for all devices held in the registry?

 

[Vagabond Software]

I can no longer connect to my secure home wireless network
using a wireless adapter in either the PCMCIA slot or the USB slot.
However,
I can connect to any unsecure wireless network within range without issue
using either. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Are
the
settings for all devices held in the registry?

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Your secure wireless network may require a WEP or WPA key. Do you know?

carl

 

[beb]

Run your Antivirus and Antispyware software and make sure your machine is
clean. Reboot your wireless access point or wireless router and that it has
the latest drivers. Check the wireless security settings on those device
that they haven't changed.

 

[Guest]

Sorry! I should have included a lot more info ...

SYSTEM (that won't connect)
* Dell D600 w/512mb RAM
* Windows XP SP2 (all updates installed)
* No problems according to latest versions of AdAware, Spybot, Microsoft
Antispyware, Ace Utilities, Regseeker, TuneUp Utilities 2006
* No virus issues re AVG (latest updates installed)

WIRELESS SPECIFIC
* This network has been operational without issue for three years. It only
stopped accessing secure network around Christmastime
* I have NETGEAR router, NETGEAR PCMCIA card for my laptop, LINKSYS USB
adapter for my (same) laptop, which I bought thinking the Netgear card may
have gone bad (but it hadn't -- same exact results with Linksys USB adapter)
* My network uses WEP
* I have reset the router to default and reentered everything without change
* I have all the latest drivers for everything on my network
* The desktop PC that connect wirelessly to the router (Netgear) has no issues
* I have done the disable adapter, disable encryption on router, reenable
adapter, reenable encryption on the router thing -- no change
* I have placed only the MAC addresses of network devices onto the router --
no change

Sorry I didn't give you all this the first time. I think the fact this
worked fine up until around Christmas (it stoppped after I installed DFX for
Windows Media Player 10 -- but I then uninstalled and did a successful System
Restore -- but to no avail) is why I was asking whether all information
related to wireless (devices, services, etc) were held in the registry. FYI,
I restored the registry to several backups I had prior to all these problems
starting on my Dell, but nothing made any difference so far.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply. Please see response post to Vagabond Software ...
It covers what you both ask, and I appologize for not including all that
stuff right off the bat.
--
Bill F
Your baggage does not have to become your reality.

Run your Antivirus and Antispyware software and make sure your machine is
clean. Reboot your wireless access point or wireless router and that it has
the latest drivers. Check the wireless security settings on those device
that they haven't changed.

 

[Vagabond Software]

Sorry! I should have included a lot more info ...

WIRELESS SPECIFIC
* This network has been operational without issue for three years. It only
stopped accessing secure network around Christmastime
* I have NETGEAR router, NETGEAR PCMCIA card for my laptop, LINKSYS USB
adapter for my (same) laptop, which I bought thinking the Netgear card may
have gone bad (but it hadn't -- same exact results with Linksys USB
adapter)
* My network uses WEP
* I have reset the router to default and reentered everything without
change
* I have all the latest drivers for everything on my network
* The desktop PC that connect wirelessly to the router (Netgear) has no
issues
* I have done the disable adapter, disable encryption on router, reenable
adapter, reenable encryption on the router thing -- no change
* I have placed only the MAC addresses of network devices onto the
router --
no change
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I just want to confirm that you know what the WEP key and that you have
entered into the Wireless Networks dialog when connecting to the network?

If so, can you ping localhost from a command prompt?

If so, open a command prompt and type 'ipconfig /all' (w/o quotes) and post
the response in a reply to this message.

carl