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| Thread ID: 109958 | 2010-05-29 00:04:00 | Wireless Problems | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 889059 | 2010-05-29 00:04:00 | My Son has asked me to reformat his elderly Asus Laptop. He has all the Recovery Disks including Drivers so I thought everything would be a piece of cake. Not so, no matter what I do I can’t get the Wireless to hook onto my Wireless Modem. Initially it said it could see my modem with excellent signal strength, but when I clicked connect it advised the Modem had gone missing? I tried using the Windows XP Zero configuration utility but it tells me another programme is in charge and I should use that. It does have a programme called ASUS WLAN Control Centre which was installed courtesy of the Recovery Disk, so I guess that is what XP is referring to. Double Clicking the WLAN Icon on the Desktop does nothing, but opening Control Panel and double clicking ASUS WLAN Card Settings, gives me a few options which I don’t understand. I’ve entered my password but it tells me that it is Eight Characters long, which it is, and it can only be Five? :confused: I’ve Googled the Web looking for instructions as to how to set the damn thing up but no luck. So, the Computer is an ASUS A2500H Running XP SP2 My Wireless Modem is a Dynalink RTA 1025W which works fine even on an old computer running WinME. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :thanks |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 889060 | 2010-05-29 00:09:00 | Install SP3, it should help with the wireless. You cant use the Zero config, because ASUS WLAN CC is installed | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 889061 | 2010-05-29 00:42:00 | I use the ASUS with no issues. Try resetting the password? My password is 8 characters, my router needs 8 for it to be accepted. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 889062 | 2010-05-29 00:44:00 | Uninstall ASUS and use windows? Uninstall and download the latest ASUS? |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 889063 | 2010-05-29 23:58:00 | Righty Ho, starting at the top. Well Speedy I didn’t want to install SP3 because all it seems to do is virtually stop low spec older machines. The computer is 2002 vintage and has worked perfectly on SP2 previously. I followed your second advice Nomad and uninstalled the ASUS programme but to no avail. Windows can see my network and the neighbours but can’t connect. Here is a link to a couple of screenshots of where I get to. After the second one it simply times out and returns to square one. www.imagef1.net.nz www.imagef1.net.nz |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 889064 | 2010-05-30 00:20:00 | Try to reset the password (or change it) on the router. Failing that reset the router to factory. But get your settings first (!). I see that you have given Windows Wireless back the control ;) |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 889065 | 2010-05-30 00:39:00 | Try restarting the Laptop, see if it connects automatically -- That may sound silly, but I have seen it many times, including my own old laptop, it wont connect until it boots. Failing that - the security may be to high for the laptops Wireless. Go into the router, disable all security - try connecting, if it connects OK,then disconnect, slowly increase the security settings in th erouter, starting at WEP until it stops connecting again, then go back one setting. |
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