Connecting to Netgear Router

[MJoshi]

Hi,

I am trying to configure a laptop with a Realtek chip based 802.11b Wi-Fi card.

For some reason the Netgear wireless router is not being detected?

I tried changing the channel number and switching the encyption off but this didn't help either.

The only way the wireless router can be detected is if the PCMCIA wireless card is removed and then re-inserted of if the computer is restarted. However, this is only momentary and then the network disappears again.

The wireless connection used to work fine until we had to re-install Windows XP. I have also installed SP2.

 

[JackMDS]

It seems that you Laptop have basic problems with the Wireless/Network Configuration.

In General, you can debug the Network Settings of a computer by following these steps.

Step One. Check the Network parameters in the Computer's Device Manager. Make sure that the Network Card drivers are installed correctly; i.e. there is No IRQ conflict, and No Ghost installation. http://www.ezlan.net/faq#ghost

Step Two. Verify Basic network setting in the OS: http://www.ezlan.net/Installing#verify If the above two Steps indicates that every thing looks good but functionally it does not work.

Step Three. Check (and repair if necessary) the Socket Layers, Winsock, and or refresh the TCP/IP Stack. http://www.ezlan.net/clean#refreshnet

If need to Reinstall the Network Settings; Log to this page, it have a lot of links to instructions for Windows Network Installation - http://www.ezlan.net/Installing.html

If every thing checks OK.

Wireless - Basic Configuration.

Wireless Security for the Home User.

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