Have checked your proxy settings?
Other options on the Connections tab?
Note that all wi-fi connections go under the "LAN" category in Connections.
--PA
"George Neuner" <gneuner2/@/comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks to everyone who responded to the last thread. I finally
> discovered that the Netgear Super-G card was intermittently failing
> and probably just happened to work when I tried it in another
> computer.
>
>
> I replaced the failing card with a new one, but now I have a new
> problem. IE6 refuses to work with the card unless my office VPN is
> active. I tried asking in IE6 specific forums, but after a few days
> I've gotten no useful answers so I thought I'd try here.
>
> The situation is this: my office laptop has built-in 11b radio, but at
> home I have a Netgear Super-G network so I use a WG511T card instead.
> The laptop also has a Cisco VPN set up by office IT. Normally, I
> should be able to use either radio, use my own network with the VPN
> disabled (and IE proxy settings disabled) and then connect the VPN to
> use my office network. This is the way I used my old Netgear card and
> it still works the same with the built-in 11b radio.
>
> However, with the new Netgear card, IE6 won't work unless the VPN is
> connected. When the VPN is disabled, all I get is "can't display page
> - can't find server or DNS error" regardless of proxy settings. I get
> the same error even if I type the server's address manually so it
> seems like IE6 isn't even trying.
>
> Other net apps (Outlook, ftp, ping, trace, nslookup) are working
> normally regardless of the VPN - when VPN is connected they route
> through my office, otherwise they route through my home network and
> ISP. Only IE6 demands the VPN be active.
>
> I can't find any settings different between the connection using the
> new card and the one using the built-in radio - both are configured
> through DHCP from my router and the settings all appear to be correct.
> Naturally the routing tables all change when the VPN is active. All
> the IE6 settings appear to be the same regardless of connection. I've
> tried uninstalling/reinstalling the Netgear card, flushing the DNS and
> browser caches when the card is in use, enabling/disabling the IE6
> proxy settings, etc. Nothing has worked. IE6 seems to be completely
> ignoring the proxy settings and just expecting the VPN all the time.
>
> There don't seem to be any settings for specific connections or
> devices in the Cisco VPN - it seems to just take over everything when
> it's active.
>
> I don't have any way of reinstalling IE6 (or anything else). Is there
> something I can check in the registry or in some setup file(s)? Any
> other thoughts or suggestions? At this point I'm completely baffled.
>
> George
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