wireless adapter

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I have a bt wireless adapter installed on a computer (win xp home) that keeps
showing in tray with the red cross and an error message cannot conect to
perferred network. KB has stated adapter maynot be WZC but it is as used on
another computer. Power management is also on which was the other resolution
but this is also turned on. A different wireless adapter which i borrowed
worked ok. Any advice would be helpful.
 
If it shows the preferred wireless network has good signal strength then
make sure it is using the right encryption key assuming encryption is
enabled for the wireless network. It may help to remove the preferred
wireless network in the adapter properties/wireless networks and trying to
connect to it again. I always disable any power management for wireless
network adapters.

Steve
 
The perferred network shows excelent signal, re-entered the encryption key. I
have removed the preferred network and tried to re-connect and still getting
same error. I have tried with power managment both on and off.
 
Kelvin said:
The perferred network shows excelent signal, re-entered the encryption key. I
have removed the preferred network and tried to re-connect and still getting
same error. I have tried with power managment both on and off.

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As a test, temporarily disable encryption at both ends, then see if you
can connect; either way, that should narrow down the cause. And, set
both ends to G-only, or to B-only if you must. Also, set the router's
SSID to something unique and set the PC to look only for that SSID; this
to make sure your PC is not trying to link to your neighbor's router.
 
I would try changing the encryption key in the router and try again though
you would have to change it on all computers that also access it or better
yet change the network name and encryption key if that is not too much a
hassle. Make sure that your preferred network is at the top of the list
also.

Steve
 
Please clarify - is this adapter not capable of working at all, or does it
just not get automatically configured by WZC? Have you tried manually
configured it with a static IP, Mask, Gateway, DNS, etc.?

You stated an alternate adapter worked on this machine - am I correct in
assuming you didn't have to reconfig. encryption, etc. for the alternate
adapter? If so, I'm not sure why that would help you with the
non-functioning one. Also, you stated the non-functioning one worked in
another machine - again, I am assuming no reconfig. of encryption was
needed...?

Because you know the adapter works (in the alt. machine), I suspect a driver
problem. Do you have the same drivers installed for that adapter in both
machines? Both machines running same OS?
 
both machines run win xp, as for the drivers used the same disk to install
software on both machines and didn't have to change any other setting. The
other adapter i install worked staight after installing the software. A third
adapter i tried has the same problem as the one not working therefore looks
more towards a win problem or WZC
 
both machines run win xp, as for the drivers used the same disk to install
software on both machines and didn't have to change any other setting. The
other adapter i install worked staight after installing the software. A third
adapter i tried has the same problem as the one not working therefore looks
more towards a win problem or WZC







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What type of wireless adapter? Interal PCI or USB? Had the "same"
prblem with both of my USB wireless adapters. Turned out to be bad
USB ports with a incompatible chipset based add-on adapter. Replaced
it and all is wirelessly stable.
 
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