[Hidden-tech] Wireless connection problems

[Keri Heitner]

In a similar situation, I had success by disabling Norton Anti-Virus and the Windows firewall so that my ISP could communicate with the router.  Once that was established, the wireless connection worked fine.

Keri

Keri L. Heitner, Ph.D.
All Aspects Research
413-549-0154
kheitner at earthlink.net
http://allaspectsresearch.westernmass.us/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: DAVID F. FARKAS 
To: Claudia Gere ; hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net 
Cc: Claudia at claudiagereco.com 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Wireless connection problems


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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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