I'm using a Belkin wireless card on my laptop (WinXP) at home. I go out of
town (fly) and then my wireless doesn't work at all. I've tried shutting
down the firewall, virus scan, etc., but my wireless utility still doesn't
connect.
Here's the real kicker:
I took my laptop along with the wireless card to Best Buy to let the Geek
Squad check it out...they can't solve the problem! They card worked on their
spares laptops at that!
Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on? They only thing that
happened was that my laptop had to pass through the security x-ray at the
airport...HELP!
I had a Belkin G card do the same thing. It suddenly stopped working
in my laptop that it had been installed in, but worked if I installed
it in another laptop.
If you haven't already, try inserting it in the other slot on the
laptop. Believe it or not, this has worked for me.
Next, if no joy, uninstall it using free "Revo Uninstaller" (google
it). Do their maximum strength uninstall to remove all traces of the
driver and utility in the registry.
Then download and reinstall the most current driver after a reboot.
Thanks Steve, the download allowed me to see my wireless network, but I
still can't connect to it. It's encrypted and I have used the correct key
but no luck.
I bought a new laptop yesterday (Toshiba P300) because I needed a new one
anyway. I still have the same problem...can see the network, can connect to
it, but when I open MS OE, no webpage loads. Any other suggestions before I
call the techno-geeks? At this point, I'm thinking my wireless access point
is hosed.
EZ
"seaweedsl" <seaweedsteve@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I had a Belkin G card do the same thing. It suddenly stopped working
> in my laptop that it had been installed in, but worked if I installed
> it in another laptop.
>
> If you haven't already, try inserting it in the other slot on the
> laptop. Believe it or not, this has worked for me.
>
> Next, if no joy, uninstall it using free "Revo Uninstaller" (google
> it). Do their maximum strength uninstall to remove all traces of the
> driver and utility in the registry.
>
> Then download and reinstall the most current driver after a reboot.
>
> Steve
>
On May 5, 5:57 pm, "EZ Allen" <eall...@satx.rr.com> wrote:
> Go figure...
>
> I'm using a Belkin wireless card on my laptop (WinXP) at home. I go out of
> town (fly) and then my wireless doesn't work at all. I've tried shutting
> down the firewall, virus scan, etc., but my wireless utility still doesn't
> connect.
>
> Here's the real kicker:
>
> I took my laptop along with the wireless card to Best Buy to let the Geek
> Squad check it out...they can't solve the problem! They card worked on their
> spares laptops at that!
>
> Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on? They only thing that
> happened was that my laptop had to pass through the security x-ray at the
> airport...HELP!
If the card works at the Geek Squad's laptop, then the problem may be
with your laptop's connection manager software
Some connection manager utilities require that winXP's WZC be turned
off
You may want to install the driver only and use a third party utility
such as Wifi Hopper
On May 8, 8:01 pm, "EZ Allen" <eall...@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>....the download allowed me to see my wireless network, but I
> still can't connect to it. It's encrypted and I have used the correct key
> but no luck.
>
> I bought a new laptop yesterday..... I still have the same problem...can see the network, can connect to
> it, but when I open MS OE, no webpage loads. ....... At this point, I'm thinking my wireless access point
> is hosed.
>
Hmm. First of all, it doesn't necessarily sound like the same
problem. One adapter/laptop won't connect and the other connects but
no internet. Could be your AP is the common bad element or could be
two seperate problems.
Try connecting your laptop directly to the router via ethernet and see
if that works.
On May 8, 8:01 pm, "EZ Allen" <eall...@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>Thanks for your help Steve. My new Toshiba laptop is working fine on
wireless, but my older Compaq laptop is still having problems
"finding/seeing" my wireless network. This is the strange part... I
download a patch from Belkin's webpage for my wireless card.
Initially, if
found the network and even connected to it. The next day, I powered
up my
Compaq and again, the same problem on not seeing the network. I've
pretty
much given up and will try taking it to one of the independent
computer
shops here in town to see if they can figure out what's going on...
>EZ
Sounds like Windows has some default startup file for that device and
the file is trashed, so it goes back to some damaged defaults after
rebooting. But I don't know what it might be. Or is the *stack*
specific to each network device? That's something that goes out on
ocasion in XP.
[Links to follow- see if my posting problem gets fixed]
What I suggested before is the *generally recommended approach* and I
took it as well, but don't remember if it worked - I keep several
adapters around and may have just put a different one on that notebook
when it gave me grief. Eventually I sold the notebook for one with
built-in wireless. I still have the card as a backup, but I now
consider it to be a flaky one. Whether that's a correct assesment or
not, don't know.
My Belkin is a F5D7010 - what's yours? Oh, and I do seem to remember
that I eventually found the original provided driver (on CD) to work
better or instead of the newer download one. So, contrary to
previous suggestion, try the original if you do a clean reinstall
again.
Oh, one more idea - what about windows restore? Got a restore point
from before your trip?
So, I'd go this route:
1) Restore point- if you got it, see if that works.
2) If not, try the stack cleanup tools. I'm sure somebody here could
tell us if this is appropriate or not here, but lacking further
advice, I'd just do it.
3) Uninstall new driver and reinstall old driver.
4) Get a cheap USB adapter for the notebook in question and forget
about it. Life is short, use the Belkin somewhere else or sell it !
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