Laptop wireless connection

I have a desktop and a laptop. They are both hooked up through a
Linksys router, to get a DSL connection. I have talked to customer
service to get help configuring the wireless connection to the laptop.
The trouble is.....everytime I boot the laptop the connection has to be
reconfigured again. What gives? How do you make the connection "stick" ?

johnnygeargrinder2004@yahoo.com

wrote:
> I have a desktop and a laptop. They are both hooked up through a
> Linksys router, to get a DSL connection. I have talked to customer
> service to get help configuring the wireless connection to the laptop.
> The trouble is.....everytime I boot the laptop the connection has to be
> reconfigured again. What gives? How do you make the connection "stick" ?
>

You did not say who made the laptop or the network card. I would check
the vendor WEB site for the latest drivers and software for the network
card.

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The router is a Linksys Wireless G. The wireless card came with the
router. I have checked the website. I have talked to customer service.
They keep getting me to reset the settings. The laptop is a DELL. It is
brand new. A couple of times the connection held for about a week. I
jusy booted and it had to be reconfigured. To configure it I ran the CD
that came with the unit and it made the settings for me. I just don't
know..

johnnygeargrinder2004@yahoo.com

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> The router is a Linksys Wireless G. The wireless card came with the
> router. I have checked the website. I have talked to customer service.
> They keep getting me to reset the settings. The laptop is a DELL. It is
> brand new. A couple of times the connection held for about a week. I
> jusy booted and it had to be reconfigured. To configure it I ran the CD
> that came with the unit and it made the settings for me. I just don't
> know..
>
Are you running any other network stuff? It really depends on the software.
I'll admit that I don't have any experience with that equipment but you
might want to run the Microsoft network detection tool after you get it
connected, just for the heck of it, and then see if it will stick.
I'm assuming that you're using XP and I've seen that work a time of two.

AG

AG

I am running XP. I will try what you said. Thanks

johnnygeargrinder2004@yahoo.com

Instead of using the software that comes with the card try entering all the
details ssid and wep code into the properties of the card in device manager
they might stay there....

just a thought....



> wrote in message
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>I have a desktop and a laptop. They are both hooked up through a
> Linksys router, to get a DSL connection. I have talked to customer
> service to get help configuring the wireless connection to the laptop.
> The trouble is.....everytime I boot the laptop the connection has to be
> reconfigured again. What gives? How do you make the connection "stick" ?
>

Remo

"Remo" <> wrote in
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> Instead of using the software that comes with the card try entering
> all the details ssid and wep code into the properties of the card in
> device manager they might stay there....
>
> just a thought....
>
>
>
> > wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>>I have a desktop and a laptop. They are both hooked up through a
>> Linksys router, to get a DSL connection. I have talked to customer
>> service to get help configuring the wireless connection to the
>> laptop. The trouble is.....everytime I boot the laptop the connection
>> has to be reconfigured again. What gives? How do you make the
>> connection "stick" ?
>>
>
>
>

Recent experience has indicated four problem areas in wireless
connections / configuration:

MS Wireless Cards tend not to play well with Linksys or DLink Equipment -
when they work great when they don't they are a bear to get to work in a
steady state

Linksys Wireless routers and D-Link repeaters and Wireless NICs do not
work together unless all three devices are from one manufacturer.
However, Linksys or Dlink routers to most wireless cards work fine
together with the exception of the MS wireless card.

The more dead space between access point and computer (be that wall
construction, walls and hallways, etc etc) the more likely the connection
will be dropping out from time to time.

Lastly, if their are a number of wireless networks close by the card will
continuously search and then drop the connection and try to re-configure.
Case in point, setup a wireless network for a business connections would
continuously drop and try to reconfigure itself for another network after
a bit of wardriving found a residential house which was running a
wireless network.

BUM

Bum

Don't use the software disk on the laptop....set up your IP config's on both
the laptop and the desktop manually. Also type in the default address of
the router and go to it check settings in the router and make sure you save
them. Do you use the laptop somewhere else wirelessly too? If so make sure
your using the alternate config settings in win xp. Also turn off both the
desktop and the laptop. Unplug your router and internet connection. Power
cycle the router back on, followed by your internet connection. Then power
on the desktop and laptop.. Let me know if this work.

Mark
"«BONEHEAD>>" <> wrote in message
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> <> wrote in message
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>> I am running XP. I will try what you said. Thanks
>
> As far as what AG said,
> I'm not famaliar with the your particular setup, but configuring your
> network settings in XP network connections would be the place to start...
>
> once you have a network connection that works, you could setup a
> shortcut that runs at boot time, to automatically start that connection...
>
> what keeps popping in my head about your connection and having to use
> the CD to get it going again, is WEP settings, or router DHCP & security
> settings
>
> I would think in the router settings once you have a connection that
> works,
> you could set up a static address link to the MAC on your laptop...
>
>
> --
> <B0N3H3@D>
> "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." Albert
> Einstein
>
>

Mark C. Van De Mar