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Author
10 Aug 2006 10:53 PM
zinedunc
Hi all,

wonder if someone could give me some guidance on a problem I'm having?

I have a Safecom Wireless LAN USB adapter (model SWLUZ-5400) and had it
running on my Win XP SP2 machine quite happily for months. I then had
some hard drive issues, and have basically re-installed Windows over
the old partition. Now I've also re-installed the driver and ZDWlan
software for the USB adapter, I can't get the wireless connection
working.

Previously, I used the ZDWlan software to manage the Wireless
connectivity, which is what I planned ot do here. However, then damn
Windows icon in my system tray persists in trying to connect too.
Hence, both keep connecting, then immediately dropping, connecting,
dropping etc.

I've disabled the Wireless Zero Config service, rebooted, re-installed
ZDWlan, rebooted etc, but can't get the blighter to stop!

One thing to note here, when I say re-install, I actually have a
situation where Drive No1 has 4 partitions, and I've only re-installed
over my old C:\ partition. The first time I ran ZDWlan, it still had
the WPA key for my network, so I'm beginning to think there may be a
full re-install on the horizon - I'd really rather not do that though,
if at all possible.

Any ideas please? Go on, put me out of my misery...

Thanks in advance

Author
11 Aug 2006 12:04 AM
Chuck
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On 10 Aug 2006 15:53:41 -0700, "zinedunc" <duncan.cla***@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>wonder if someone could give me some guidance on a problem I'm having?
>
>I have a Safecom Wireless LAN USB adapter (model SWLUZ-5400) and had it
>running on my Win XP SP2 machine quite happily for months. I then had
>some hard drive issues, and have basically re-installed Windows over
>the old partition. Now I've also re-installed the driver and ZDWlan
>software for the USB adapter, I can't get the wireless connection
>working.
>
>Previously, I used the ZDWlan software to manage the Wireless
>connectivity, which is what I planned ot do here. However, then damn
>Windows icon in my system tray persists in trying to connect too.
>Hence, both keep connecting, then immediately dropping, connecting,
>dropping etc.
>
>I've disabled the Wireless Zero Config service, rebooted, re-installed
>ZDWlan, rebooted etc, but can't get the blighter to stop!
>
>One thing to note here, when I say re-install, I actually have a
>situation where Drive No1 has 4 partitions, and I've only re-installed
>over my old C:\ partition. The first time I ran ZDWlan, it still had
>the WPA key for my network, so I'm beginning to think there may be a
>full re-install on the horizon - I'd really rather not do that though,
>if at all possible.
>
>Any ideas please? Go on, put me out of my misery...
>
>Thanks in advance

Don't stop the WZC service, stop the WZC Manager from loading.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/01/stabilise-your-wifi-use-only-one-wifi.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/01/stabilise-your-wifi-use-only-one-wifi.html

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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Author
11 Aug 2006 4:58 PM
zinedunc
Solved it - I uninstalled the third party software and reverted to
using just the drivers from the CD provided and let Windows manage the
wireless connection
Author
11 Aug 2006 6:54 PM
Chuck
On 11 Aug 2006 09:58:48 -0700, "zinedunc" <duncan.cla***@gmail.com> wrote:

>Solved it - I uninstalled the third party software and reverted to
>using just the drivers from the CD provided and let Windows manage the
>wireless connection

That's one way to do it.  Thanks for letting us know.

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My        email         is          AT         DOT
   actual       address    pchuck       mvps        org.