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12-06-2007
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| | Wireless network trouble Gateway MT6916 Laptop, Win Vista Home Prem 32bit, Intel pro Wireless 3945ABG, Linksys wrt54G. I cannot get the laptop wireless to work, FN &F2 turns on the light but I do not show a wireless device on the taskbar, Device manager shows it "working properly" "not Connected". I downloaded and tried to install the latest drivers but the device driver will not install. I read about Vista hotfix # 932063 but not sure if that will help. How can this be so hard? Something is either wrong or I missed something simple. Help |
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12-06-2007
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| | Re: Wireless network trouble Maybe you need to go Network and Sharing Center to setup the wireless. or This how may help too. How to setup wireless in Windows Vista http://www.wifimvp.com/howto/setwireless2.htm -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "grfok" <u39670@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:7c48f942813d3@xxxxxx Quote: > Gateway MT6916 Laptop, Win Vista Home Prem 32bit, Intel pro Wireless > 3945ABG, > Linksys wrt54G. > I cannot get the laptop wireless to work, FN &F2 turns on the light but I > do > not show a wireless device on the taskbar, Device manager shows it > "working > properly" "not Connected". I downloaded and tried to install the latest > drivers but the device driver will not install. I read about Vista hotfix > # > 932063 but not sure if that will help. How can this be so hard? Something > is > either wrong or I missed something simple. > Help > |
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12-06-2007
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| | Re: Wireless network trouble Been there done that... Also worked with Gateway and Linksys online to no help... seems wireless hardware is not working... even though device manager says it is. Robert L. (MS-MVP) wrote: Quote: >Maybe you need to go Network and Sharing Center to setup the wireless. or >This how may help too. > >How to setup wireless in Windows Vista >http://www.wifimvp.com/howto/setwireless2.htm > Quote: >> Gateway MT6916 Laptop, Win Vista Home Prem 32bit, Intel pro Wireless >> 3945ABG, Quote: >> either wrong or I missed something simple. >> Help |
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12-06-2007
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| | Re: Wireless network trouble You might want to pull out the Gateway manual. They may have installed the Intel Pro-Set utility for the Wifi, which would require you to start that program to enable/disable the Wifi.. Look around in your Start Menu for Pro-Set or Intel Wireless... --- Jeffrey Randow jeffreycentex@xxxxxx Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006 http://www.networkblog.net On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:21 GMT, "grfok" <u39670@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >Gateway MT6916 Laptop, Win Vista Home Prem 32bit, Intel pro Wireless 3945ABG, >Linksys wrt54G. >I cannot get the laptop wireless to work, FN &F2 turns on the light but I do >not show a wireless device on the taskbar, Device manager shows it "working >properly" "not Connected". I downloaded and tried to install the latest >drivers but the device driver will not install. I read about Vista hotfix # >932063 but not sure if that will help. How can this be so hard? Something is >either wrong or I missed something simple. >Help |
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12-06-2007
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| | Re: Wireless network trouble In addition to my earlier post, also consider upgrading your wireless drivers from Intel's website... --- Jeffrey Randow jeffreycentex@xxxxxx Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006 http://www.networkblog.net On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:01:14 GMT, "grfok" <u39670@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > Been there done that... Also worked with Gateway and Linksys online to no >help... seems wireless hardware is not working... even though device manager >says it is. > >Robert L. (MS-MVP) wrote: Quote: >>Maybe you need to go Network and Sharing Center to setup the wireless. or >>This how may help too. >> >>How to setup wireless in Windows Vista >>http://www.wifimvp.com/howto/setwireless2.htm >> Quote: >>> Gateway MT6916 Laptop, Win Vista Home Prem 32bit, Intel pro Wireless >>> 3945ABG, Quote: >>> either wrong or I missed something simple. >>> Help |
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12-07-2007
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| | Re: Wireless network trouble That's part of the problem, no Pro Set utilities installed and when I try to install them from intell they remove themselves before the install is complete.... Wierd... I think you're on to something with the WIFI though... Thanks Jeffrey Randow wrote: Quote: >You might want to pull out the Gateway manual. They may have >installed the Intel Pro-Set utility for the Wifi, which would require >you to start that program to enable/disable the Wifi.. Look around in >your Start Menu for Pro-Set or Intel Wireless... >--- >Jeffrey Randow >jeffreycentex@xxxxxx >Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006 >http://www.networkblog.net > Quote: >>Gateway MT6916 Laptop, Win Vista Home Prem 32bit, Intel pro Wireless 3945ABG, >>Linksys wrt54G. Quote: >>either wrong or I missed something simple. >>Help Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....rking/200712/1 |
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12-09-2007
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| | Re: Wireless network trouble Look in the event log... It should explain why the Windows Installer is rolling back the install... --- Jeffrey Randow jeffreycentex@xxxxxx Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006 http://www.networkblog.net On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:35:03 GMT, "grfok via WindowsKB.com" <u39670@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >That's part of the problem, no Pro Set utilities installed and when I try to >install them from intell they remove themselves before the install is >complete.... Wierd... I think you're on to something with the WIFI though... >Thanks > >Jeffrey Randow wrote: Quote: >>You might want to pull out the Gateway manual. They may have >>installed the Intel Pro-Set utility for the Wifi, which would require >>you to start that program to enable/disable the Wifi.. Look around in >>your Start Menu for Pro-Set or Intel Wireless... >>--- >>Jeffrey Randow >>jeffreycentex@xxxxxx >>Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006 >>http://www.networkblog.net >> Quote: >>>Gateway MT6916 Laptop, Win Vista Home Prem 32bit, Intel pro Wireless 3945ABG, >>>Linksys wrt54G. Quote: >>>either wrong or I missed something simple. >>>Help |
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