All of the connection services in Network Connections were turned on
[and fighting with each other]. Why? is that the default?
Firewall is turned on in the DSL modem and for notebook. I also changed
to a different wireless channel.
In the new User, I turned off everything except TCP/IP, and opened only
the port for http and now it works. I assume that the last person who
borrowed the PC didn't have wireless, only ethernet, and reset
everything to defaults. Now I know where to change back to my settings.
There are too many settings in too many places.
Thx.
Betty
May be a multiple of problems.
It is connecting as you are pinging it.
However check the firewall settings. Also how it is setup
(wireless.)
I assume you have security turned on for the wireless access point.
Remove all previous profiles and try and create a new profile. Check
the way it is setup to connect to the Access point (wireless card
setup) All of these can be suspect.
Stewart
At 09:56 PM 6/3/2007, you wrote:
My husband, Bob, has two Dell Inspiron and one Latitude notebooks
he bought for his middle school library 2 years ago to lend to
teachers when they need to use them. He lent one of the Inspirons
out last week, and when he got it back he couldn't connect to the
Internet via WiFi. It does connect via ethernet. I don't know if
any students used it.
The card turns on, has good reception, sees the wireless
modem/router. I can ping it OK, but can't connect to the modem,
Internet or anything else. Bob proceeded to go through all of the
settings he could think of, but no luck. Nothing else seems to be
broken. The notebook is running XP Home, and connected fine with
WiFi before the last time he lent it out.
Which settings is he missing? WiFi card was installed when he got
the notebook--Broadcom, driver v.3.100.35.0.
Betty
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