It almost sounds as if your adapter is powered off. Do you have a switch to
enable it on your Dell? If not you might try pressing Function F5 at the
same time.
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"Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "JS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Background: I have a Dell Latitude D600 with Pro/2200bg wireless
>> connection on Windows XP professional with SP2. The radar like wireless
>> icon of PRO/2200gb in the tray was fine (green signal and everything) but
>> used to show Nordic( Swedish!) language so I asked my admin to change the
>> language to English. He went ahead and uninstalled the driver completely
>> and told me a re-install will get English language.
>>
>> However: Now I can't connect with any wireless connection anywhere -
>> office or home despite many re-installs of 2200bg driver from both dell
>> and Intel sites. Admin is clueless.
>>
>> When I right click on the Wireless icon -everything is greyed out except
>> for OPEN INTEL PROset WIRELESS and OPEN INTEL WIRELESS TROUBLESHOOTER.
>> - When I click the Troubleshooter the message is CURRENTLY THERE ARE NO
>> ISSUES REPORTED.
>> -When I click on OPEN Intel proset Wireless the pop says Intel
>> PROset/Wireless was unable to detect a supported wireless adapter. Pls.
>> install a supported wireless adapter.
>>
>> * If I go to drivers and look at Network Adapters - it shows Intel
>> PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection in green but if I right click it,
>> I see a pop-up that says ADAPTER STATE NOT FOUND IN REGISTRY. If I click
>> OK button on the pop up, it shows a window with 5 tabs( General,
>> Advanced,Driver, Details, Resources) - In the general category its says"
>> This device is working properly" and the Device usage shows Device
>> enabled
>> * there is another Network Adapter that is marked with a red tag (and I
>> believe this adapter was not there earlier at all) Intel PRO/Wireless
>> 2200BG Network Connection - PACKET SCHEDULER MINIPORT that is shown as
>> disabled. If I enable it , I get the message - " Windows successfully
>> enabled this device, however, this device is still not working properly
>> and the red tag changes to a yellow colored ! sign.
>>
>> could somebody pls. guide me how to rectify these errors.
>> Thank you Very much for reading and responding.
>>
>>
>>
> Perhaps there the adapter cannot connect because it has a hardware
> problem. You could try reseating the adapter (although if this were the
> problem, I would not expect that XP would report that the device is
> working properly).
> Jim
>
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