On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:24:37 -0500, "Diane LeMasson"
<dlemasson@prodigy.net> wrote in
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>John, thanks for responding & see my remarks below.
>"John Navas" <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:07:02 -0500, "Diane LeMasson"
>> <dlemasson@prodigy.net> wrote in
>> <rHMvh.2898$MN.2851@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>:

>> >From reading various posts here I'm thinking maybe the way he setup
>> >everything up might be the problem why the adapter stopped working.
>>
>> What _exactly_ does "stopped working" mean?
>
>By stopping I mean lights went out

On the router? On the adapter? On the Windows desktop?

>& the icon (D) in the tray disappeared.

D? You mean the wireless icon disappeared? What did it say in Network
Connections?

>No longer connects to the internet.

One step at a time -- let's get it connected to the wireless router
first.

>> Again, what _exactly_ does "stopped working" mean?
>
>The lights that indicate it's working disappears

On the router? On the adapter? On the Windows desktop?
I can't read your mind.

>Again the icon in the system tray also disappears, therefore no option
>to reconnect.

And in Network Connections? If it's missing there, then the wireless
adapter is probably defective, or having problems with the USB port.
Try a different USB port, and try the adapter on a different computer.

>> With many DSL ISPs (including Verizon), but not with all.
>
>He is using Verizon DSL so it should be a PPPoE, no?
>He called Verizon was told it is a PPPOE
>You say ' not with all' please explain? Not all DSL are PPPoE?

Not all DSL are PPPoE. Some are bridged, static or DHCP.

>Then how do we determine which to pick?

Info from the ISP.

>> Start by verifying that you can connect to the router's configuration
>> screen.
>
>Honestly I can not recall right now. I'll have to ask my son about this.
>I was not there but helping him by phone.

It's hard to help the person having the problem.
It's doubly hard to do it second hand.

>> Thrashing around.
>
>Please explain?

Changing more than one thing at a time.

>We started this last Friday night when he first started to have this
>problem.
>He did uninstalled everything & went step by step to reinstall to have the
>same
>problems. Come Saturday have both the Quick Install Guide & the full manual
>in front of us walked him through connecting everything. With same results.
>Here are the steps taken:
>1. entered http://192.168.0.1 in address box 2. Typed 'admim' for username
>3. D-Link's home page appears to 'Run Wizard'. 4. Next you do nothing it's
>just to tell you are now in the setup wizard. 5. Set up new password.
>6. Choose Time Zone. 7.Auto Dectecting Wan 8. Select Internet Connection
>Type (Wan) He selected PPPoE. 9. Set PPPoE, entering the username & password
>Verizon gave him. Clicking on next took him to a screen he could not make
>out
>because it wouldn't download properly. There were no back, next or the exit
>button
>to get out of it. From the manual the next 2 screens should have been the
>setup
>for the Lan connections & to restart the computer.
>As of now I don't remember how he got out of that screen. Have to ask my
>son.

Was this wired or wireless? If wireless, try again wired.

>Let me ask you this, since all he did was select PPPoe, entered a username &
>password would this effect his XP, change any settings within?

No.

>Is there some place on this computer that we can check & the reason why I'm
>asking you this, in the instuctions it said to 'remove any existing PPPoE
>client
>software installed on the computer'. Could this be our problem & how do you
>do this? Where do we go to find this?

If could be a problem if the computer was ever connected directly to the
DSL modem. To remove PPPoE, uninstall the adapter in Windows Device
Manager; remove it; then reinsert it to auto-detect and reinstall it.

My thinking(tm) now is that your wireless adapter may have gone bad.
Try it in a different computer.

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