Thanks for your suggestions. I have tried several times to uninstall the
whole wireless card and reinstall to no avail. May just have to reload from
scratch. If the WZC says it is stopped in windows services, would it not be
stopped? How else can you tell? I've even disabled it in the startup. My
Linksys card was working fine here at home, but on the road trying to connect
to an unsecured network gave me these same symtoms. Connected, but no
internet accesss. That's why I bought this besides the fact the Linksys
doesn't seem to have a true xp compatible driver.
"Diamontina Cocktail" wrote:
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> "ens" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:A99C9216-D4C7-4241-968D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Cable connected to Linksys router, Desktop connected thru ethernet cable.
> > Laptop with Orinoco wireless card (latest driver). No firewall started.
> > Says
> > excellent connection to network. Can ping router and desktop now. But
> > still
> > no connection to internet. Have tried turning on and off the WZC utility.
> > The Configuration Utility that comes with the new driver is useless cause
> > all
> > the buttons to add profiles and anything else are all disabled (with the
> > WZC
> > on or off).
>
> Yeah, they WOULD be disabled until you turn the Windows one off which, even
> though you may think is off, may not be.
>
> Personally, I would try reinstalling the wireless NIC driver from scratch.
> Also the network. Once the driver is done, set up the network with no
> firewall OR encryption.
>
> If that fails to yield a result, you may have to reset the router physically
> and then pull the power plug out of it for a good 30 seconds then put it
> back in, setup your Internet again and then setup the network.
>
> You see, the old "cant see the forest for the trees" saying comes in here.
> You may have made a mistake but cant see it.
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