presario 2500 desktop wireless card

[736xl]

I am having a hard time with a few of these laptops. They have a broadcom wireless card that will not see a cisco aironet. I've upgraded them to the latest possible drivers (2004) which shows that they are capable of 54M, but still I do not see my wireless ap. I have a thinkpad next to them and I can see everything fine.

Anyone has come across anything like this? Would greatly appreciate any info.

Thanks

 

[stduc]

but still I do not see my wireless ap

Do you mean they are not seeing the network at all?
Is the cisco broadcasting the SID?
If possible temporarily make the cisco as open system, no security.

latest possible drivers (2004)

These seem a bit old. You didn't say which broadcom card you have but a swift google came up with this.

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/NE...S/BROADCOM-Wireless-802-11b-and-802-11g.shtml

With an indicated date of February 27th, 2006 06:44


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[736xl]

it is a Broadcom 802.11b/g Wan card. Yes the ssid is broadcast and no I need to have a wep key or some sort security. I have my thinkpad next to the compaq and mine works fine, the compaq doesn't.

Thanks for your help.

 

[vanka25]

Wireless card drivers and utilities are not the same thing; I once worked on a Toshiba laptop for which I installed the latest drivers off of Toshiba's website but decided to skip the utility. I was not able to get the wireless working even though I had the hardware switch in the "ON" position; the Hardware Manager saw it as disabled. Turns out that for the wireless card to work properly I needed the fast-switch (I believe that's what it was called) utility/driver. I would go to the laptop manufacturer's website and download and install their latest wireless driver and utility.

 

[736xl]

The wireless card is working. I can see other wireless aps I can latch to them fine as well. (I haven't tried but my guess they are linksys APs).
They were working fine before the upgrade which it was needed for other reasons. HP support wasn't helpfull. Blamed the cisco APs and somehow their incompatibility.
I will try to find the untilities and see if that would work. Thanks

 

[wahnula]

HP support wasn't helpful. Blamed the cisco APs and somehow their incompatibility.

Typical CS help desk solution, blame the other guy's stuff. It was for this very reason that I chose one manufacturer for all cards, WAPs and routers in my wireless network, although that's not a possibility here. This way, they can''t blame the other company's stuff in the middle. I chose D-Link, and their support is still pretty bad, I have better luck with problems here!

Totally agree with vanka25's assessment that you should give the card's utility a go. It's one more step in the troubleshooting process. There is a separate wireless forum here: forum730
If you're still stuck.

Tony

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