Wireless needs wired

About ½ of the time that I boot up my notebook and try to connect to the
wireless network I get the message “No wireless networks were found in
range�. The rest of the time it finds several networks and connects to my
network with no trouble. At the times it is not working, all I have to do is
plug a CAT5 in an as soon as I have a wired connection the wireless starts
working. I can then unplug the wired connection and continue with the
wireless. I have never of this sort of problem before, as any one else?

Phoenixfif wrote:
> About ½ of the time that I boot up my notebook and try to connect to the
> wireless network I get the message “No wireless networks were found in
> range�. The rest of the time it finds several networks and connects to my
> network with no trouble. At the times it is not working, all I have todo is
> plug a CAT5 in an as soon as I have a wired connection the wireless starts
> working. I can then unplug the wired connection and continue with the
> wireless. I have never of this sort of problem before, as any one else?

Do you have Vista or XP? What adapter model? Never have seen this.

--PA