XP+SMC card=frequent loss of connection. PLEASE help!

Hi everyone. I recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, running the
Home Edition of Windows XP. I am using an SMC-2635w wireless card and
frequently lose my internet connection. Our router is an SMC Barricade, and my
brother is also on a wireless connection on our network, using a linksys card
and running Windows 2000. He has no troubles. When I am actually connected to
the internet, my signal is almost always "excellent." I have downloaded the
most recent driver from the SMC site and am out of ideas, but I am no expert.
Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated. Please reply to (E-Mail Removed)
ASAP if possible. Thanks so much!

Noel

I just went through this with a linksys G card. Disable the Wireless zero
configuration service in XP. Uninstall any SMC drivers. Then with the
service disabled reinstall the SMC drivers. This should correct the problem.


Steve
"MelodyTwo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi everyone. I recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, running
the
> Home Edition of Windows XP. I am using an SMC-2635w wireless card and
> frequently lose my internet connection. Our router is an SMC Barricade,
and my
> brother is also on a wireless connection on our network, using a linksys
card
> and running Windows 2000. He has no troubles. When I am actually connected
to
> the internet, my signal is almost always "excellent." I have downloaded
the
> most recent driver from the SMC site and am out of ideas, but I am no
expert.
> Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated. Please reply to
(E-Mail Removed)
> ASAP if possible. Thanks so much!
>
> Noel

I had similar problems with my Orinoco Gold using DHCP. Once I gave it a
hardcoded IP I haven't had a problem
since.

On 29 Aug 2003 18:59:14 -0500, P_Man <P@the_beach.net> wrote:

> At least yours connects sometimes... My Baricade 7004vwbr and 2635w
> card dies just after recieving an ip address from the router.... The
> wired part works fine....
>
>
>
>
>
> P
>
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:58:37 -0600, "SteveS" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> I just went through this with a linksys G card. Disable the Wireless
>> zero
>> configuration service in XP. Uninstall any SMC drivers. Then with the
>> service disabled reinstall the SMC drivers. This should correct the
>> problem.
>>
>>
>> Steve
>> "MelodyTwo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Hi everyone. I recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop,
>>> running
>> the
>>> Home Edition of Windows XP. I am using an SMC-2635w wireless card and
>>> frequently lose my internet connection. Our router is an SMC Barricade,
>> and my
>>> brother is also on a wireless connection on our network, using a
>>> linksys
>> card
>>> and running Windows 2000. He has no troubles. When I am actually
>>> connected
>> to
>>> the internet, my signal is almost always "excellent." I have downloaded
>> the
>>> most recent driver from the SMC site and am out of ideas, but I am no
>> expert.
>>> Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated. Please reply to
>> (E-Mail Removed)
>>> ASAP if possible. Thanks so much!
>>>
>>> Noel
>>
>
>

Just an FYI if anyone is still following this thread:



I gave up on the SMC on my HP ze4420us all it would do is lock up the
tcp\ip after getting an ip via dhcp... Hard coding an ip and manually
assigning the gateway, repaired my tcip stack and tried that winsock
repair out there, ect.... didn't change things. It never worked on
the HP but it did work on my old compusa rcl300 running WinMe.
Brought the laptop back to were I bought it and they put in a Linksys
WPC11 V. 4 ... Works like a champ now...



P_Man


On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:11:20 GMT, null <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I had similar problems with my Orinoco Gold using DHCP. Once I gave it a
>hardcoded IP I haven't had a problem
>since.
>
>On 29 Aug 2003 18:59:14 -0500, P_Man <P@the_beach.net> wrote:
>
>> At least yours connects sometimes... My Baricade 7004vwbr and 2635w
>> card dies just after recieving an ip address from the router.... The
>> wired part works fine....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> P
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:58:37 -0600, "SteveS" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just went through this with a linksys G card. Disable the Wireless
>>> zero
>>> configuration service in XP. Uninstall any SMC drivers. Then with the
>>> service disabled reinstall the SMC drivers. This should correct the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>> "MelodyTwo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Hi everyone. I recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop,
>>>> running
>>> the
>>>> Home Edition of Windows XP. I am using an SMC-2635w wireless card and
>>>> frequently lose my internet connection. Our router is an SMC Barricade,
>>> and my
>>>> brother is also on a wireless connection on our network, using a
>>>> linksys
>>> card
>>>> and running Windows 2000. He has no troubles. When I am actually
>>>> connected
>>> to
>>>> the internet, my signal is almost always "excellent." I have downloaded
>>> the
>>>> most recent driver from the SMC site and am out of ideas, but I am no
>>> expert.
>>>> Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated. Please reply to
>>> (E-Mail Removed)
>>>> ASAP if possible. Thanks so much!
>>>>
>>>> Noel
>>>
>>
>>
>