Connectivity Issue

My wife's one-year old Gateway desktop with Win XP Pro has built-in wireless
that has always worked perfectly. It connects via our home Linksys WRT54g
router. Lately, when it boots up, there's a yellow triangle on the icon in
the lower right taskbar. Clicking on that brings up the wireless network
box. It states that the Linksys connection has "little or no connectivity",
yet the speed is 54 mbps. I disconnect it from the network and then re-connect.
The dialog box for the WEP key comes up. The key is already entered. I push
OK, and then it connects to the internet.

Any idea why it suddenly began showing a connectivity problem? It always used
to connect automatically during bootup.

Thanks!
Scott

"Scott" <golden@uslink.net> wrote in message
> My wife's one-year old Gateway desktop with Win XP Pro has built-in
> wireless
> that has always worked perfectly. It connects via our home Linksys WRT54g
> router. Lately, when it boots up, there's a yellow triangle on the icon
> in
> the lower right taskbar. Clicking on that brings up the wireless network
> box. It states that the Linksys connection has "little or no
> connectivity",
> yet the speed is 54 mbps. I disconnect it from the network and then
> re-connect.
> The dialog box for the WEP key comes up. The key is already entered. I
> push
> OK, and then it connects to the internet.
>
> Any idea why it suddenly began showing a connectivity problem? It always
> used
> to connect automatically during bootup.

I would go into your preferred network connections and remove your linksys
then reassociate with the ap and re enter the wep key.. sounds like you are
not correctly authenticating with the ap.. might also delete any other
connections that are in there that are un needed.
Try power cycling the ap and double check nothing has changed in it..

Adair

Adair Witner wrote:
>
> "Scott" <golden@uslink.net> wrote in message
> > My wife's one-year old Gateway desktop with Win XP Pro has built-in
> > wireless
> > that has always worked perfectly. It connects via our home Linksys WRT54g
> > router. Lately, when it boots up, there's a yellow triangle on the icon
> > in
> > the lower right taskbar. Clicking on that brings up the wireless network
> > box. It states that the Linksys connection has "little or no
> > connectivity",
> > yet the speed is 54 mbps. I disconnect it from the network and then
> > re-connect.
> > The dialog box for the WEP key comes up. The key is already entered. I
> > push
> > OK, and then it connects to the internet.
> >
> > Any idea why it suddenly began showing a connectivity problem? It always
> > used
> > to connect automatically during bootup.
>
> I would go into your preferred network connections and remove your linksys
> then reassociate with the ap and re enter the wep key.. sounds like you are
> not correctly authenticating with the ap.. might also delete any other
> connections that are in there that are un needed.
> Try power cycling the ap and double check nothing has changed in it..
>
> Adair

Adair, I followed your suggestion. I removed linksys, then re-established it.
On the next bootup, it connected on it's own. However, subseuent bootups went
back to the "little or no connectivity" issue. I wonder if my Linksys router
should be reset? The other 2 wireless-enabled computers in the house are working
fine.

Thanks!
Scott

Adair Witner wrote:
>
> "Scott" <golden@uslink.net> wrote in message
> > My wife's one-year old Gateway desktop with Win XP Pro has built-in
> > wireless
> > that has always worked perfectly. It connects via our home Linksys WRT54g
> > router. Lately, when it boots up, there's a yellow triangle on the icon
> > in
> > the lower right taskbar. Clicking on that brings up the wireless network
> > box. It states that the Linksys connection has "little or no
> > connectivity",
> > yet the speed is 54 mbps. I disconnect it from the network and then
> > re-connect.
> > The dialog box for the WEP key comes up. The key is already entered. I
> > push
> > OK, and then it connects to the internet.
> >
> > Any idea why it suddenly began showing a connectivity problem? It always
> > used
> > to connect automatically during bootup.
>
> I would go into your preferred network connections and remove your linksys
> then reassociate with the ap and re enter the wep key.. sounds like you are
> not correctly authenticating with the ap.. might also delete any other
> connections that are in there that are un needed.
> Try power cycling the ap and double check nothing has changed in it..
>
> Adair

Adair,

Now it's connecting fine at bootup. Whatever the problem, it seems to have re-established
the normal connection on it's own.

Scott