Why wont wireless work with my desktop when it works with all my laptops???

15 Dec 2006 12:18 AM

Kumar

Hi,

I've two laptops and two desktops at home. All have XP and the ones on
the desktops are freshly installed. I have a DSL model with a linksys
wireless router in front. I'm using wireless adapter cards with my
laptops (different types) and they work with the wireless router
perfectly and took no fiddling to get them running. I've tried HW
wireless adapter card (on my PCI bus) and a USB wireless on both of my
desktops and they never work. The HW card worked when I first
installed it for a few minutes and then stopped. Both are able to see
other more faint wireless networks (e.g. my neighbors!) but they never
see mine. I've tried 2 different vendor's HW cards and a USB one was
from Linksys so it's not a vendor quirk.

The desktops and laptops are all located in the same room. I even
moved my desktop so it was right next to the router and there was no
change. At this point, it has to be some weird software setting on my
desktops but what??

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Kumar

15 Dec 2006 1:59 AM

David Hettel

I can think of one reason why your desktops might not see your router. That
is because you have SSID disabled on the wireless router.

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"Kumar" <kumar.gosw***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1166141897.449179.126180@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I've two laptops and two desktops at home. All have XP and the ones on
> the desktops are freshly installed. I have a DSL model with a linksys
> wireless router in front. I'm using wireless adapter cards with my
> laptops (different types) and they work with the wireless router
> perfectly and took no fiddling to get them running. I've tried HW
> wireless adapter card (on my PCI bus) and a USB wireless on both of my
> desktops and they never work. The HW card worked when I first
> installed it for a few minutes and then stopped. Both are able to see
> other more faint wireless networks (e.g. my neighbors!) but they never
> see mine. I've tried 2 different vendor's HW cards and a USB one was
> from Linksys so it's not a vendor quirk.
>
> The desktops and laptops are all located in the same room. I even
> moved my desktop so it was right next to the router and there was no
> change. At this point, it has to be some weird software setting on my
> desktops but what??
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Kumar
>

15 Dec 2006 2:06 AM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
It is a strange story, first time I here something like this. There should
not be any difference between installing and making the Wireless work on
Laptop or a Desktop. Most Laptops come installed with the Wireless, so it
might be that while you are installing Wireless Hardware by yourself you are
doing something that causes it.
This page has a collection of Wireless information may be you would find
there the answer.
http://www.ezlan.net/#Wireless
This might help in the basic installation, http://www.ezlan.net/debug.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"Kumar" <kumar.gosw***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1166141897.449179.126180@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I've two laptops and two desktops at home. All have XP and the ones on
> the desktops are freshly installed. I have a DSL model with a linksys
> wireless router in front. I'm using wireless adapter cards with my
> laptops (different types) and they work with the wireless router
> perfectly and took no fiddling to get them running. I've tried HW
> wireless adapter card (on my PCI bus) and a USB wireless on both of my
> desktops and they never work. The HW card worked when I first
> installed it for a few minutes and then stopped. Both are able to see
> other more faint wireless networks (e.g. my neighbors!) but they never
> see mine. I've tried 2 different vendor's HW cards and a USB one was
> from Linksys so it's not a vendor quirk.
>
> The desktops and laptops are all located in the same room. I even
> moved my desktop so it was right next to the router and there was no
> change. At this point, it has to be some weird software setting on my
> desktops but what??
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Kumar
>