Hi
Many Wireless cards when installed put their own Wireless Manger on the
system as well.
Most of the users prefer Windows Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) as a
Wireless Manger, thus need to disable the original vendor's utility and make
sure that WZC is On.
Maybe this can Help,
http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html (scroll down to the
second demarcation line).
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)
"tcarp" <> wrote in message
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> My wife's Dell Inspirion 710M has been connecting successfully to our home
> wireless network for a very long time. Suddenly, she's getting the
> message
> "Windows can't configure this wireless connection". There's a note about
> WZC
> which implies there's another program managing the wireless connection.
>
> I'm not aware of any install or message asking which program to use. What
> did happen was she plugged in an external wireless care (Linksys) to run a
> quick test to see if she would get better network performance from it vs.
> the
> internal card.
>
> Ever since she has had the error message and no connection.
>
> Before I go down the path to research WZC, does anyone have any idea why
> this might have started after she plugged in the Linksys external card?
> I've
> tried to "repair" the network connection but it fails at the point where
> it's
> trying to connect to the network.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom