Wireless not giving internet or sitting with acquiring address

[DellHater]

Hi

having a look at a few laptops and get this problem.
Its an acer aspire, if i use the internal card, it connects (well says it is) but I can access internet OR
if I put a netgeat W511GT PMCIA card in it sits there acquiring net work address.

Wired connection is fine

Any ideas guys.....

 

[flyboytim]

Acer has a wireless configuration utility, and Windows has a different utility. Either may have been used with the original internal adapter. Investigation in control panel should give the answer.

The same utility should be used to set up both adapters, and the network needs to know which to use, as both cannot be used at the same time to obtain an internet connection.

The adapters also sit in contention with the wired adapter - only one at a time on the same network. If more than one is used it must be with a different network, and you cannot, say, share your internet connection with both to get double the up and downline capacity.

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[DellHater]

Hi Tim

Yes I know that, I am using windows for both adapters, I was using the PMCIA as an alternative, not both at the same time.
Even tried the netgear with its own software, I can connect, but no internet, or the ability to ping anything (which both work fine when wired)

I am wondering if there are any settings which would stop internet traffic ........... ?
Bear in mind when I got this laptop, no firewall or anit visur existed, so next avenue will be MBAM and virus scan.
A defrag is running now cause its a pile of pants on the OS disk and that will take hours to run, so this wont be a quick turn around.

 

[BadBigBen]

I would uninstall the WiFi NIC's and have Windows reinstall them, update the drivers for the chipset and the NIC's in general, then go from there to troubleshoot the issue...

alternatively, reinstallation (or an Inplace Upgrade Install if it is XP) of the OS may be the only route to go, there is a possibility that something gotten so screwed up with the registry and drivers, etc. that repairing would take more time than a fresh install with backup of the old data would take...


Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[DellHater]

Yep Ben exactly the way I want to do it, but there is a shed load of data files that are in use on here and no idea what needs to be backed up. OR even if they have the Cds to reinstall everything that is on here.

The JOYS !!

I'll take the drivers off and re-install the NIC this evening and see what that does, along with a ipconfig /release

 

[goombawaho]

Do the MBAM scan then reset the Winsock after rebooting from fixing whatever MBAM tried to remove. Reboot a second time.

As Ben suggested - driver remove and reinstall with the LATEST drivers.

Use Windows wireless tool and report what happens.