Wireless connectivity problems??

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skitty4gzus · #1 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:15 pm

I have a t42p and up until about a week ago i was able to logon to different password protected wireless locations. Now all of a sudden I can not get onto any of my wireless networks. either here at home or the multiple networks at church. i have to turn the wireless protection off here at home to be able to get on. the only protection i have is a mac address filter. i updated the driver, but still no go, is there any answer for this out there?

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:17 am

You can try uninstalling the wireless card completely (and its profiles if it asks), restarting and reinstalling the card. If you have Access Connections installed, uninstall it (and its profiles) first. After reinstalling the card, see if it works, then if you use Access Connections, reinstall it. ... JDH

skitty4gzus · #3 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:59 pm

i tried that. didnt make a difference. It does the same thing no matter what network im trying to get on. it gets to acquiring network address and sits there forever and never acquires. kinda frustrating. worked fine forever, now it doesn't? kinda strange. it was fine till the other day when i had to reset the router and i had to re input the PpPoe setting back into the router and since than it has been goofed up. And i know its not just here at the house because it wont logon to any other known networks. strange

seaweedsl · #4 Post by **seaweedsl** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:39 pm

Try a sytem restore to previous date when it was working.

If it works again, that might tell you something, especially if an update suddenly comes up.

And of course, if it works, it work!

skitty4gzus · #5 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:38 am

yea, i rolled back to old drivers and everything. still no fix. there has to be a solution or is the mini PCI card fouled?

RussellW · #6 Post by **RussellW** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:23 am

I've observed that now, after clean-installing XP SP3 and lastest IBM Wireless A/B/G driver on my T42P, I can no longer get "Apply" to effect my WPA2 (AES) connection to my D-Link DGL-4300 like it did under SP2. I must reboot before the wireless will connect.

Once the system is rebooted, however, I have no disconnect or wake-up problems of any kind. So, for now, I now have to reboot before connecting to WPA2 networks. No problem with WEP, haven't tested WPA. YMMV.

seaweedsl · #7 Post by **seaweedsl** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:11 pm

I've observed that now, after clean-installing XP SP3 and lastest IBM Wireless A/B/G driver on my T42P, I can no longer get "Apply" to effect my WPA2 (AES) connection to my D-Link DGL-4300 like it did under SP2. I must reboot before the wireless will connect.

That's exactly why I suggested system restore. I had a laptop come to me last week that would not do internet, though I could ping the router thru wireless or wired. It was not a Thinkpad.

I knew it was Windows, but the only that would help (apart from fresh install) was system restore. As soon as the restore finished, SP3 wanted to install (again, no doubt) I held off and did some searching, found that there was a conflict with SP3 and my antispy software. I uninstalled the anti spy and all went well.

skitty4gzus says

"i rolled back to old drivers and everything"

I can only hope that "everything" means system restore.

Rolling back to old drivers is not the same as system restore and would not fix the problem I had...

Good luck guys,
Steve

skitty4gzus · #8 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:52 pm

the problem lies in the fact that i cant log onto a secured router, unsecured im fine. sounds like there is a problem with the card. is there anybody out there that can help confirm that? I dont have a backup or a place to restore to so what do i do there. I dont want to do a fresh install because i dont really have anyway to transfer all the files elsewhere and than back onto the HD.

seaweedsl · #9 Post by **seaweedsl** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:30 pm

OK. It's kinda hard to tell, but I think you are saying that you have system restore turned off or don't have restore points far enough back.

Or else you don't understand system restore?

I find it hard to believe the card can do everything but not deal with security. Which it did fine before.

Sure doesn't sound like hardware. And considering it does it in more than one place, I'm willing to bet it's software on your machine.

One more thing I would do before reinstalling Windows is get another wireless adapter and try that. Something USB or pcmcia. Install that and see if it works ok. Might tell you something.

But I'd be heading towards a reinstall myself.

You say you have no place to put your files? Then you have another potential problem that will get you sooner or later. You need a backup. Really.
If your files are not that big, then burn some CDs or DVDs with your critical data.

Might want to buy another hard drive and a USB enclosure and/or ultrabay drive adapter. This will set you back $50-$100, but you need a backup no matter what pc you are running.

Then get Acronis True Image and ghost your drive over to the other one. You can get True Image very cheap if you search for older versions. Or I think they have free trials. See the sticky on this site (somewhere) for how to do that.

Once you have a good verified image (ghost) of your drive, you can reinstall windows and drivers on the original drive.

Good chance this will fix it.

Other route:
Swap in another wireless card. If it works, it was the card. Like I said, unless somebody else knows different, I doubt that just the security part of the card went out.

Another idea: It's possible your router is acting funny (this is more common) with security and the other one you tested it with has it's own issue, maybe they changed the pw. Or maybe you already tested it with more than two? Easy to check, anyway. Sometime two problems pop up, which complicates diagnoses.

Steve

seaweedsl · #10 Post by **seaweedsl** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:00 pm

One more thing. MAC address filtering can cause trouble. When you reinstall drivers etc and test the security, MAC filtering should have been off.

was fine till the other day when i had to reset the router and i had to re input the PpPoe setting back into the router and since than it has been goofed up.

Gotta wonder it it's even the Thinkpad....but it also fails on how many other routers? Just one? Again, think hard- you may be falsely eliminating the router as the culprit.

Consider doing a hard reset on the router and reconfiguring from the start. One thing at a time. No filtering. Then set the security and see. Try WEP, then WPA.

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