need some wireless help in vista

[pak]

I haven't moved on to vista yet, so I am not very familiar with it.

The wireless suddenly stopped working. I try to find a wireless network and the laptop can not find any. I hit the diagnose why windows cant find any networks button, and it says the windows wireless service is not working. So I then click start windows wireless service, it starts repairing then tells me it can not resolve this problem. And I am stumped there. I tried doing a system restore and no luck there either.

Any ideas?

--pakk

[ou_phidelt]

Is it a notebook? If so make sure you wireless switch didn't get switched off. I'm not trying to be smart, I've done it myself and about went crazy trying to figure it out. Can you see the network with another system?

[bz2klag]

I haven't moved on to vista yet, so I am not very familiar with it.

The wireless suddenly stopped working. I try to find a wireless network and the laptop can not find any. I hit the diagnose why windows cant find any networks button, and it says the windows wireless service is not working. So I then click start windows wireless service, it starts repairing then tells me it can not resolve this problem. And I am stumped there. I tried doing a system restore and no luck there either.

Any ideas?

--pakk

Maybe, who made the device? I recently had to fix a netgear pci card for someone, and the only way I could get it to work reliably (or at times, even at all) was to use the wireless configuration utility provided by netgear, windows wireless configuration wasn't going to cut it. In that situation you can use one or the other but not both at the same time. To my surprise, the netgear utility could turn itself off and win zero config on, or vice versa, from within the utility, without having to access services configuration.

[pak]

it is a gateway notebook and the light that indicates the wireless is on, is in fact on. I could try installing different software.

--pakk

[meionm]

Delete Wireless network from your computer then do another setup for it.

[ou_phidelt]

it is a gateway notebook and the light that indicates the wireless is on, is in fact on. I could try installing different software.

--pakk

Don't do that, more software is only going to complicate the issue. Windows does it fine. The other stuff is for Joe sixpacks that cannot do any configuration at all.

Can you get on the network with another PC?

[pak]

yeah, all my other pc's work fine. This one doesn't find any networks.

[meionm]

Is that pc only wireless pc on your network?

[pak]

Delete Wireless network from your computer then do another setup for it.

I did this.


The problem is vista is not seeing the wireless adapter. It is turned on and it is listed under device manager.

[meionm]

Vista is not seeing wireless network card in your system? If that so you could have disabled the hardware. Some laptops have a switch that turn off wireless device.

[pak]

Is that pc only wireless pc on your network?

no, there are several things on the wireless network.


It seems to be some hardware issue. When I tried to setup a new network it could not find the wireless adapter.

Vista is not seeing wireless network card in your system? If that so you could have disabled the hardware. Some laptops have a switch that turn off wireless device.


It is enabled. At least the light is on saying that it is.

[meionm]

Couple of other options; device is broken or maybe the wires got disconnected.

[bz2klag]

Don't do that, more software is only going to complicate the issue. Windows does it fine. The other stuff is for Joe sixpacks that cannot do any configuration at all.

Can you get on the network with another PC?

I used to think that too, until it didn't.
I found that using the mfr sw, although distasteful, was necessary in one case.

[ou_phidelt]

Can you see the wireless card in device manager?