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Wireless Connection Unavailable
Name: myrrhjack Date: September 16, 2005 at 09:18:42 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: P3/384
Comment:
Running XP Pro on Vaio PCG-SRX87P - One day I turned it on and there was no wireless connection to my desktop PC through a Linksys router. "Network Connections" says "Wireless connection unavailable." I don't think I did anything to it to cause this.
I've tried messing around with the configuration of the connection but with no luck. I disabled the wireless connection, rebooted, then enabled the wireless connection - no luck. I've been able to fix such problems in the past. A second desktop PC accesses the first one wirelessly okay.
Name: hookemfins Date: September 16, 2005 at 12:15:04 Pacific
Reply:
What router? Is it B or G? How long have you had the router?
Could be the router just went dead. Happened to me with a B router.
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Response Number 2
Name: myrrhjack Date: September 16, 2005 at 13:10:07 Pacific
Reply:
The router is BEFW11S4 - I guess that's a B. I would think if the router was dead that the second desktop PC would not have a good connection (which it does).
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Response Number 3
Name: hookemfins Date: September 16, 2005 at 14:29:00 Pacific
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That's what happened with mine. The wireless quit working but the desktop kept rolling along. You could do a reset of the router and see if that gets it to work. If not go with the G. Better security.
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Response Number 4
Name: vipergg Date: September 16, 2005 at 16:41:03 Pacific
Reply:
Work from the defaults, open up all security on the router , this includes SSID, any mac filtering . then default these on your wireless nic also if you can't connect after this then I would suspect the router itself or the wireless nic . Wide open you should be able to connect . If you look at your wireless nic do you have a link light ???
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Response Number 5
Name: myrrhjack Date: September 16, 2005 at 18:31:12 Pacific
Reply:
The second desktop PC connects to the router wirelessly. And I have reset the router. No change.
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