Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 05:33 PM 3/1/2006, Pete Holsberg typed:
I switched the USB port for the Dell wireless thingy on a friend's
XP Home PC and now she cannot connect to the in-house Verizon cable
modem/wireless access point.
Why?
Why did I switch it? I had used the USB port on the front because I was lazy, and now she has a flash drive for the front USB port.
She can connect to a neighbor's unsecured network!
It asks for the network key which we entered and then we get
"looking for network address" and "invalid IP address" and while
there are three bars of signal strength, we cannot connect.
Something obvious that I overlooked??
That's another bug a boo about USB that I don't care for. If a driver
was installed for a specific USB device & port which it usually does
then when you switch ports you need to reconfigure the app to the new
port or reinstall.
Don't recall installing a driver. In any case, I cold booted the machine after
switch the USB NIC and XP admitted to having recognized it.
Thx.
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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ
Treat everyone the way you want to be treated.
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