my laptop running win xp sees the company network in the wireless network connection list, when i click on the network to connect i get a message saying 'windows was unable to connect to the network, the network may no longer be i range. Please refresh the list of available networks and try again'. i've done this and still see the company network and still get the same message when trying to connect, any ideas why this is?
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How to troubleshoot wireless network connections in Windows XP Service Pack 2PSS ID Number: 870702
Configuring Your Windows XP Mobile Computer To Go On The Road (Page 6 of 9, follow links on web page for other pages)
A quote from Fred Langa - "As for configuring your wireless, with each of the last four laptops I've gotten over the years, I've ended up eventually stripping out the vendor's proprietary wireless access management software and letting Windows manage the connections on its own. In XP especially, the wireless connection tools are pretty good and not hard to use. And, with only one tool trying to monitor and manage the wireless, things are much simpler. For example, you can tell the Windows tool NOT to try to connect to just any network it happens to find; to forget about networks you'll never see again; to connect automatically only to networks you know about and preapprove; and so forth. I keep hoping that some vendor will ship a truly effortless tool, but none in my experience has even come close; instead, the built-in Windows tool is still the best I've found".
Configuring Your Windows XP Mobile Computer To Go On The Road (Page 6 of 9, follow links on web page for other pages)
A quote from Fred Langa - "As for configuring your wireless, with each of the last four laptops I've gotten over the years, I've ended up eventually stripping out the vendor's proprietary wireless access management software and letting Windows manage the connections on its own. In XP especially, the wireless connection tools are pretty good and not hard to use. And, with only one tool trying to monitor and manage the wireless, things are much simpler. For example, you can tell the Windows tool NOT to try to connect to just any network it happens to find; to forget about networks you'll never see again; to connect automatically only to networks you know about and preapprove; and so forth. I keep hoping that some vendor will ship a truly effortless tool, but none in my experience has even come close; instead, the built-in Windows tool is still the best I've found".
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The network administrator may have make address filtering enabled! Check with your network admin.
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