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Wireless connectivity problems with Dell laptop

  • 07-07-2006 12:11pm
    #1
    irishfeller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I have a Dell Latitude laptop with build in wireless card/chip. I have set up a Netgear wireless router at home. The signal strength from this is very strong all over the house, and when I start up the laptop, it connects straight away to the wireless broadband.
    If the wireless connection drops, however, and is disconnected, I then have problems reconnecting to it. Sometimes it reconnects again, but most of the time it won't and displays the message 'Unable to connect'. I have tried everything when this happens from disabling wireless and reenabling it, deleteing my wireless profile and recreating it, but I still get the message 'Unable to connect'. Then if I reboot the laptop it connects fine when I start it up again!

    So basically most of the time if the wireless connection drops, I have to reboot the laptop before being able to reconnect to it which is a real pain!

    Anyone have any ideas?

    Cheers,
    IrishFeller


Comments

  • #2
    kevodaly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭kevodaly


    Check if your wireless zero configuration service is started

    click on start, run and type in - "%systemroot%\system32\services.msc /s"

    double click wireless zero configuration, set the startup type to automatic, and in service status click on start, then apply and ok.

    if the service was already started then i'm not sure what else to try.

    Kevin


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I've got an Inspiron 6000 with an Intel wireless LAN card and was having problems with the connection dropping off. The solution was to disable power management on the card.
    If its an Intel card you can do this by right-clicking My Computer, going to Properties, click the Hardware tab and then the Device Manager button. Expand Network Adapters and double click on whatever the wireless LAN card is. Now click the Advanced tab, and you should see "Power Management" on the left. Uncheck the Automatic box on the right and drag the slider all the way towards "Highest Performance". Now click OK and close out of everything. Reboot and see if things work.

    Other than that it could be a firmware problem in the router or a driver problem on your laptop.


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