Rlah
Technical User
- May 31, 2001
- 50
The wireless network connection for my 1-1/2 year old HP desktop (Window 7 Home) computer has quit working... it does not see a wireless network. Although I'm now using a Cat5 cable connection to my Cisco Valet router, it is irritating to me that I can't print to my wireless printers w/o a USB connection.
All other wireless and wired devices (PC computers, printers, Droid phone) are working to the Cisco router.
I have reset, rebooted, re-powered both the Cisco and the HP with no help. When Windows went through it's trouble shooting, it came up with an error message:
"Local Area Connection" doesn't have a valid IP configuration.
After googling that error message, I did not get helpful suggestions for my situation... I tried disabling IPv6 - no help.
So I gave up and after awhile the computer found the network through the already plugged in Cat5 cable.
Now when I go to Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Set up a new connection or network -> Set up a new network ==>> it does not see any wireless router devices. It seems the wireless part of my network adapter has completely failed... right?
Device Manager says the Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller is working properly. I did an Update Driver... no help.
I should mention that I installed VirtualBox virtual machine when I bought the HP to run WinXP in a box when I need to run old software. It installs a "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter" to communicate between the virtual machine and the host. But it has not interfered with my networking over the past 1-1/2 years.
Can anyone help with further trouble shooting help or should I shop for a new wireless network adapter? I know wired connections but the hardware for wireless on a desktop is foreign to me. Maybe there is a cheap USB device I can buy to get my wireless connection back?
rlah
All other wireless and wired devices (PC computers, printers, Droid phone) are working to the Cisco router.
I have reset, rebooted, re-powered both the Cisco and the HP with no help. When Windows went through it's trouble shooting, it came up with an error message:
"Local Area Connection" doesn't have a valid IP configuration.
After googling that error message, I did not get helpful suggestions for my situation... I tried disabling IPv6 - no help.
So I gave up and after awhile the computer found the network through the already plugged in Cat5 cable.
Now when I go to Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Set up a new connection or network -> Set up a new network ==>> it does not see any wireless router devices. It seems the wireless part of my network adapter has completely failed... right?
Device Manager says the Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller is working properly. I did an Update Driver... no help.
I should mention that I installed VirtualBox virtual machine when I bought the HP to run WinXP in a box when I need to run old software. It installs a "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter" to communicate between the virtual machine and the host. But it has not interfered with my networking over the past 1-1/2 years.
Can anyone help with further trouble shooting help or should I shop for a new wireless network adapter? I know wired connections but the hardware for wireless on a desktop is foreign to me. Maybe there is a cheap USB device I can buy to get my wireless connection back?
rlah