M Skabialka wrote:
Quote:
> A friend with a vista PC was having problems connecting wirelessly to a
> router. It had been working OK for months then she decided to download the
> MS Office 2007 trial. Since then her wireless connection stopped working
> (though I have no idea why this happened at this time). Their other
> computer was also having a really slow ethernet connection so I had them buy
> a new cisco wireles router with his new PC. I told the Vista machine to
> connect to the new SSID but I had set up WPA on the router and vista didn't
> have that option. So then I changed it to WEP on the router but vista said
> it couldn't connect. A help menu had me run some netsh commands about adhoc
> and infrastructure but it still didn't work so I rebooted. Now the vista PC
> doesn't even see any wireless networks available, but a laptop I tried as a
> test still sees three SSIDs including the new one.
>
> What are my troubleshooting steps in vista to find out what is wrong with
> her wireless connection and how to fix it?
> And how can I find out what is still making the network still slow - the
> other machine is brand new with WinXP?
>
>
This setup probably is too far gone to fix using newsgroup advice. In
particular, who knows what you managed to do with netsh. But here goes
anyway.
This is simply wrong:
Quote:
> I had set up WPA on the router and vista didn't have that option.
What led you to that conclusion? Have you installed Vista sp1?
Start by ensuring that the laptop's wifi adapter is actually turned on
and functioning. Check the documentation for a physical switch or
Fn+Fkey combination. Check Device Manager.
If you get things back to where you can detect the presence of wireless
networks, then configure the router to use *no* security at all (no
encryption, no IP filters, no MAC filters, etc.) and try to connect. If
you can connect when there is no security present, then add back
WPA2-Personal encryption and try connecting again.
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Lem -- MS-MVP
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