Wireless stopped working

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brain_wired

Hello,

A couple of days back my wireless stopped working.when I try to connect
the message at the bottom reads 'connecting to www.google.com' and it
never connects. The connection is present and it even shows the IP
address when I click the wireless connection icon on the taskbar, but
the strange thing is when I do ipconfig on the command line I just get
a blinking cursor, it doesnt show me the ip address nor does it allow
me to clear the DNS cache with ipconfig /flushdns command. When I try
to repair the connection using the wireless wizard it gets stuck on '
clearing DNS cache' and I cannot even cancel it. When I cancel with
Ctrl-Alt-Del all mt desktop icons dissappear and all I see is a plain
desktop. I have to reboot to come back to my desktop. I reinstalled the
ethernet and wireless drivers, did a system restore, but to no avail.

what seems to be the problem here. Corrupt drivers. Do I have to clear
the DNS cache manually. Thanks in advance.

Brain
 
This is what I did. I unchecked the option 'let windows enable my
wireless configuration setting' and lo I was connected. But later when
I resumed after standby it refused to connect again. I checked to see
if the DNS client was enabled and to my surprise it was disabled (I
didnt do anything !). So I enabled it but still didnt work. Finally I
rebooted and now it works. I really dont know if the problem will come
back or not but thanks for all your help.

I do not think it's a router problem as I was unable to connect to
other wireless networks too.

Brain
 
brain_wired said:
This is what I did. I unchecked the option 'let windows enable my
wireless configuration setting' and lo I was connected. But later when
I resumed after standby it refused to connect again. I checked to see
if the DNS client was enabled and to my surprise it was disabled (I
didnt do anything !). So I enabled it but still didnt work. Finally I
rebooted and now it works. I really dont know if the problem will come
back or not but thanks for all your help.

I do not think it's a router problem as I was unable to connect to
other wireless networks too.

Brain
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In device manager check the power management tabs for devices....
[ ]Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
 
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