Wireless connection unavailable

[azkiwi]

I'm trying to set up the wireless network on my eMachines lappy, with a new D-Link DWL-2100AP and the pre-installed wireless card Broadcom 54g 802.11g card.

All firewalls and ICS are off
The AP shows a steady power and LAN LEDs, and blinking WLAN indicator.

I cannot ping the AP or access the setup from the wireless connection.
Network Connections: "Wireless conection unavailable".
Taskbar says the Wireless Network radio is disabled and when I try to enable it I get the message:

"The radio on your 802.11 network adapter is still disabled. Use the hardware radio control switch enable it."

Device Manager indicates the wireless card is working properly.


?????

 

[aolsucks]

Sounds like there is a physical hardware switch to turn on the radio signal... but im not exactly sure...

 

[azkiwi]

that would be fairly pointless on an internal card on a lappy wouldn't it?

 

[ktwebb]

Check your manual. Likely a small button or switch somewhere on the laptop. The Toshiba satellites have this and it kicked my ass for two hours trying to figure out what was going on. Well whadda ya know, the manual actually helped.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: azkiwi
that would be fairly pointless on an internal card on a lappy wouldn't it?

Not really. A few new lappys have these so you can turn them off on airplanes as most niovices dont know how to do it via device manager.

either

A) check for a physical boolean or contact switch.
B) enable the network connection(i know it will not connect) and use their wireless utility. Their should be an option when you right click on its icon in the system tray to enable the transmitter.

pics.bzzz.../.is down so I can;t post a screenshot

 

[azkiwi]

OK, thanks all.

The 'switch' is Fn F2 and the D-Link 2100 has an auto-sensing LAN port that apparently prefers the router to be a normal port and not an uplink one.