GreenTeeth
MIS
Hi there,
I have a USB Wireless dongle on my desktop (at the recomendation of the people I bought the PC off) and when I first got it, it would not connect, though all the settings for our network were fine.
I got straight onto the bloke I bought it off, and he seemed a little flustered and said it worked fine in the shop, and that it must be a network issue and not really his problem. But after going through it all with him he offered very helpfully "oh dear, I don't know". At which point I could only wait for the network administrator.
After kind of giving up, 5 hours later, I was just playing about on my new pc, suddenly the wireless picked up a signal. t
Then everytime I rebooted for any reason, again I would give up only to come back later for it to have connected.
I finally discovered a way to kick it into gear when I rebooted. It came in the shape of a freeware bit of 3d modelling software called wings3D. For some reason I would reboot the computer, and I would just have to start wings, and fiddle with a cube or something for a minute or so, and the wireless adaptor would kick in.
Well due to a thorough clean up regestry and other bits, due to Winfixer virus, (now possibly cleared up) I cannot get the dongle to pick up the network again, and my rather random technique for kicking it into gear no longer works.
There is no problem with the network, I am using right now with this laptop.
I have checked all the settings for the network adapter and they are as they should be, there is a green light on the dongle, and in the system folder, click on the adapter, and it says that it is working properly.
Yet on the icons on the task bar, I have a little red tv instead of a green one, and the wireless icon has a cross next to it.
There does not seem to be a connection, to the network.
Does anyone know much about these little USB nightmares. Any help would be really appreciated, even if it is DO NOT USE A WIRELESS DONGLE, because they are known rubbish or if this is unusual behaviour and means that the dongle is no good.
Let me know if there are any logs or other info that needs posting.
The dongle itself is an apparently standard 802.11g USB 2.0 Wireless LAN Adapter.
When student asks a questions, often the most obvious solution is the answer.
I have a USB Wireless dongle on my desktop (at the recomendation of the people I bought the PC off) and when I first got it, it would not connect, though all the settings for our network were fine.
I got straight onto the bloke I bought it off, and he seemed a little flustered and said it worked fine in the shop, and that it must be a network issue and not really his problem. But after going through it all with him he offered very helpfully "oh dear, I don't know". At which point I could only wait for the network administrator.
After kind of giving up, 5 hours later, I was just playing about on my new pc, suddenly the wireless picked up a signal. t
Then everytime I rebooted for any reason, again I would give up only to come back later for it to have connected.
I finally discovered a way to kick it into gear when I rebooted. It came in the shape of a freeware bit of 3d modelling software called wings3D. For some reason I would reboot the computer, and I would just have to start wings, and fiddle with a cube or something for a minute or so, and the wireless adaptor would kick in.
Well due to a thorough clean up regestry and other bits, due to Winfixer virus, (now possibly cleared up) I cannot get the dongle to pick up the network again, and my rather random technique for kicking it into gear no longer works.
There is no problem with the network, I am using right now with this laptop.
I have checked all the settings for the network adapter and they are as they should be, there is a green light on the dongle, and in the system folder, click on the adapter, and it says that it is working properly.
Yet on the icons on the task bar, I have a little red tv instead of a green one, and the wireless icon has a cross next to it.
There does not seem to be a connection, to the network.
Does anyone know much about these little USB nightmares. Any help would be really appreciated, even if it is DO NOT USE A WIRELESS DONGLE, because they are known rubbish or if this is unusual behaviour and means that the dongle is no good.
Let me know if there are any logs or other info that needs posting.
The dongle itself is an apparently standard 802.11g USB 2.0 Wireless LAN Adapter.
When student asks a questions, often the most obvious solution is the answer.