Losing wireless when returning home

Hope someone can help resolve my daughter's problem
She has wireless internet access in her flat
Dell latitude d505 laptop
inbuilt IntelPro/wireless 2100 3b mini-pci
netgear dg834gt router/modem
XP Pro
Everything is working fine even when she takes her laptop to
school(teacher) to do some OFF LINE work when she returns home the
netgear is detected straight away.
However if ,while in school, she connects by cable to the school's
network on her return
home no network can be detected.
The only way she has found to restore connection is by resetting
netgear and re-configuring it.

Any ideas?

deauville rider wrote:

> she connects by cable to the school's network on her return home
> no network can be detected.

The laptop (or any PC with both cable and wireless) seems to be a
little confused, because having used the cable connection, next
time it is told to 'go online' there's no cable present...

> The only way she has found to restore connection is by resetting
> netgear and re-configuring it.
> Any ideas?

a) She could try to 'repair' or 'restart' the wireless connection.
I don't have any wireless kit here, but have assisted others to
set theirs up... However the terminology escapes me, and it'll
be a bit of trial and error. Even 'disable' and 'enable' might
sort it out.

b) She could try disabling the cable connection (not needed if the
wireless connection will start up again, but another way to get
the laptop to 'forget' the last connection was on the cable).

On 22 Jan 2006 06:56:27 -0800, "deauville rider"
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> on her return
>home no network can be detected.

does she do a "search for available networks" or ??

Phil
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Thanks for the replies.
I'll pass info on and she can try it next week

On 22 Jan 2006 10:31:15 -0800, "deauville rider"
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>I'll pass info on and she can try it next week

ask if she shuts the laptop down or suspends it on leaving. If its
suspended it wakes up expecting to see the same connections.

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Thanks guys,
Disabling the cable connection did the trick