Threads Replies Last Post 23 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23   Problems with wireless and Vista Business laptop I am installing & testing a guest WLAN. The wireless products are D-Link (router and AP's). The laptop is a Dell Latitude D820 recently upgraded from WinXP SP3 to Vista Business. Problem: I can connect and get an IP from the wireless router from all AP's when they are wired (CAT5 cable) directly to the router. But I can't get an IP when the AP is NOT wired to the router. I can't tel... 9 11/19/2008 4:54:37 PM XP PC is not fully visable in network I have two PC's and a NAS conneccted to internet via a wireless router. Internet connection for the 2 PC's -> no problem. The problem is that the XP PC does to see the the other two resources in the network, able to ping the NAS succesfully but not the Vista PC. Able to access and transfer files to the NAS through a vendor utility. The Vista PC sees the XP PC and the NAS, when thryi... 3 11/17/2008 3:59:00 PM Inastall D-Link DWL G510 rev.C on windows w2k3 Hello, I tried a lot to install D-Link DWL G510 wireless adapter on w2k3 but no success. Is there any workaround to make it working ? Thanks, Mihai... 2 11/15/2008 8:13:48 PM won't detect wireless network but says there are available network I have had my media centre pc connected to a wireless network for about a year with no problem and now it will no longer detect any networks via the XP connection method. I have recently installed SP3 but couldn't say if it was straight after that I had the problem or not. I did a system restore but it still doesn't work. The strange thing is that the networks are detected via PC-Cill... 3 11/15/2008 12:35:57 PM WiFi Vista Not Working How do we get Microsoft to fix WiFi and Vista? After coming out of sleep state on my notebook (Lenovo X61s most less than one year old) I went to three different WiFis in the same shopping mall and it would not connecting through to the Internet -- Local Only. I had to reboot and I constantly have to go through rebooting. I tried ipconfig/renew and repair and it just won't go through ... 8 11/14/2008 11:32:19 AM web site up but can't ping? I'm just curious. What would be happening if a web site was accessible (and not in the browser cache), but when pining it from a command line it says Reqest Times Out?... 2 11/14/2008 8:55:58 AM WPA Hacked? I read that WPA wireless encryption has been hacked and should not be used. True? ... 8 11/14/2008 3:26:41 AM Intel Pro Set/wireless Zero Config service has encountered a probl I'm using a Toshiba A100-JH2 running Intel T2300 Duo Core and Win XP Home ed SP3. Recently, I updated the driver of Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG. After that, I got a message telling me driver and software mismatch. Therefore, I downloaded the updated ver. of software. A few days later, I got a message: "Intel Pro Set/wireless Zero Config service has encountered a problem and needs to clos... 3 11/14/2008 3:23:33 AM How to detect bluetooth devices in range with WSALookupServiceBegin/Next (and not all remembered deveices) Hi, My Problem: WSALookupServiceNext returns all remembered devices and not only the ones that are in range. I use WSALookupServiceBegin and WSALookupServiceNext to retrieve the bluetooth devices. This works fine. I see all devices that have already been paired with my computer (WinXP, Microsoft BT stack) and all devices in range that are not paired. But how can I see, wheth... 1 11/13/2008 10:22:15 AM printer 'dropped off' n/w Folk: If I'm not in the right place, plz direct me to the proper ng. Running XP, all service packs. ISP is hardwired to desktop, and laptop is on wireless network; printer is USBed into desktop; printer sharing is enabled. Have been using this configuration for 4 years, no problem. Now, laptop cannot print to the printer. Called ISP: they can't help, b/c they can't see the printe... 13 11/13/2008 12:09:51 AM WPA not working on Japanese windows XP SP2 I changed my D Link from WEP to WPA PSK and my Dell Windows XP SP2 Home connects no problem; however, I have a Toshiba Laptop with Japanese Windows XP SP2 OS and it won't finish "acquiring" the SSID once changed. Seems like I"m stuck with WEP. Can anyone help?... 19 11/12/2008 6:57:51 PM Turn off wireless?? Can the wireless radio be turned off in a Linksys WRT54G router? I have a relative is is concerned about RF radiation (she is a cancer survivor and I can't convince her otherwise), and I'm trying to get her to buy a wireless router just in case she finds evidence in the future that will convince her that it's not harmful. A wired only router seems less versatile and provide less options.... 19 11/12/2008 4:09:25 PM Connected to free public network - but no traffic Tray icon on WinXP XP2 laptop indicates "connected" to public free wireless at local library. But sometimes cannot browse the Internet - both IE6 and Firefox 3.0.3 report "cannot find server". Randomly and issue fixes itself after a while. Cannot ping or traceroute. Changing DNS servers from default to FreeDNS servers sometimes does work but only temporarily. Connection to home wireless ne... 3 11/11/2008 5:56:41 PM Can't install USB network adapter Trying to install a Wireless G Plus MIMO USB Network Adapter on a Dell desktop with XP SP2. Downloaded the driver and installation utility from Belkin, installed and device mgr said "this device cannot start". Uninstalled and reinstalled in safe mode. Worked and connected to my wireless network. Shut down, took machine to clients house, and the "device cannot start" again. Spent hours at... 6 11/10/2008 9:55:13 PM Folder Permissions Problem Hello, I am trying to keep (Documents and Settings) folder on Host machine from being accessed by client computers on the network, but still want to allow other folders on C: to be shared. How can this be achieved? I was thinking that instead of sharing the entire C: drive, just set the individual folders as shared instead. Would that work? -S... 3 11/10/2008 6:04:09 PM how to let Windows user join the network Hello. A friend of mine uses WEP connection at home office. The encryption is only to discourage instead of forbid neighbors to access and he has no interest upgrading to WEP. However he recently had a problem of using Windows in that network. His family uses Mac OS and Linux. His router, a comcast device, supports only WEP and during set up, ask user for a passphrase. He enteres "ea846060... 3 11/10/2008 6:02:33 PM Windows XP and ralink wireless util My laptop uses windows xp and uses ralink wireless utility 1.2 to configure and drive the wireless card. I have multiple logins for me (admin) and the kids (non-admin users). If I log in as me (admin) I can connect and through the ralink util create a profile and next time I login it connects automatically using the profile I have saved. However, if I log on as a non-admin user - al... 3 11/10/2008 3:17:56 AM Problem with wireless ad hoc networking Hi, I've been trying to set up a ad hoc wireless network between two laptops but just can't seem to get through. I have followed the article by Barb Bowman (and few other articles as well). My second laptop just doesn't detect the wireless network created by the host ! I have a home laptop (HP Pavilion, Media Center XP, SP2) which is connected to the internet via an ethernet cable. I... 4 11/10/2008 12:27:14 AM Service blocked--someone trying from China, Helsinki, and Finland Hello: I'm very new to home wireless networking, so this question may seem parochial. I have a Wireless Router (Netgear WNDR3300) and I have the activity log e-mail to me every hour. Every now and again, I'll receive notification of a block IP address. Most of the time, the IP address isn't local. In fact, it's not even in my state or country (U.S., New York). I've received notification... 3 11/10/2008 12:19:26 AM wireless connection works on desktop without security, but with security cannot connect I have a windows xp desktop with latest patches and updates. I've had this problem for about a year now since I got the Verizon Fios router (not blaming the router). I moved computers around the house. My desktop, which used to be connected via wire, moved to a room without a wire connection so I've tried at least 3 different wireless cards to see if I could improve the connection. If I t... 5 11/9/2008 11:59:10 PM 3g card + two laptop + hub Hi there, I have two laptops running XP, one Vodafone 3G card and one netgear GT604 router. Basically I want the laptop without the internet connection to be able to access the internet through the other laptop's internet. How would one go about it? Thanks... 4 11/8/2008 5:09:24 PM Wireless problems with PC tower? Hello I have a normal network card in a desktop which is not in use - the PC is in a room of its own and not connected to the Internet at the moment. My partner, in another room, uses a laptop connected with a cable to a router in order to connect to the Internet and that works fine. I aim to buy a PCI wireless card for the tower and hope to use the ariel on my partner's router (the... 7 11/8/2008 12:23:08 AM Video Surveillance Question We will soon own a small condo-hotel unit that will not be rented out. The unit will have built in wired/wireless internet access similar to that found in may hotels. I assume it will be password protected. We want to cover our area with an internet-accessed surveillance camera when we are not there. Questions: -what kind of camera do I want (brand or feature specific if possible... 10 11/7/2008 4:47:34 PM How to get my bluetooth back? Hi, I have a lenovo T60 installed with Vista Ultimate. Now i've got a problem: The bluetooth doesn't work. The LED light of the bluetooth in the pc doesn't shine at all. I checked the Device Manager list, there's neither bluetooth device nor a device without driver installed. Could you please tell me how to make the bluetooth work? PS: The PC had the bluetooth work when it was instal... 4 11/7/2008 2:12:15 PM Redesigning wireless solution Hello: I am in the process of redesigning my wireless solution. I want to use encryption and make it as secure as possible. Ideally I wanted to tie it into my AD and utilize my CA to issue certificates to either users or computers. I am not sure? Does anyone have any advice or know of any good white papers. Thanks.... Harrison ... 3 11/7/2008 2:00:31 PM 23 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23