[Hidden-tech] Wireless connection problems

[DAVID F. FARKAS]

Hi Claudia...
I had the same problem on my new laptop. Wireless worked fine right 
out of the box and then would not work even though it said it had a 
connection. I spend hours with Lynksys tech support changing router 
setting. Finally someone at the laptop mfr tech support asked whether 
it had 'ever worked' and I realized it had to be something done while 
installing software.

I restored the disc to factory defaults <I had no data on the machine 
yet> and immediately removed Norton antivirus. I then installed my 
preferred virus and utility program without installing it's firewall 
module. Everything now works fine. As far as I can tell it was a 
conflict between some Norton function, Windows XP Firewall and the 
firewall module in my virus software.

At home I disable the XP firewall and depend on the security on my 
wireless router. On the road I use the software firewall.

Hope this ramble opens some intuitive channel that create an 'ah-ha' 
of what software conflict might be doing this.

Blessings,
David


At 05:25 PM 2/20/2006, Claudia Gere wrote:
>I am having a problem connecting to a wireless network connection. I am
>operating a Windows XP laptop that uses a Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual Ban
>WLAN Mini-PCI card. When I click on the Wireless Network Connection icon  in
>the task bar, my system says and shows that I am connected, but when I try
>to connect to Internet Explorer I don't get connected and MS Office Outlook
>says it can't find the server. So even though it says I'm connected, I can't
>do anything. The Wireless Network says it is configured for open access and
>is set up in my system to connect automatically.
>
>I connected wirelessly just yesterday to another system just by clicking
>connect and I ran diagnostics on the PCI card so I don't think it's a
>hardware or driver problem. Does anyone know if I need to change any
>settings or anything else I can try?
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Cheers, Claudia
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