Wireless Connection Help

[Miles]

I've got a wireless enabled Dell Inspiron 500m laptop, its about 5 years old, but works fine.

I've always had a problem connecting it wirelessly, but gave up and used a cable.

If I go into wireless networks it searches and finds available networks. When I click on mine to connect I get the message

"Windows is unable to connect to the selected network. The network may no longer be in range. Please refresh the available networks and try again."

If I do this on my other laptop I then enter the security key and it works fine, so I know that there isn't a problem with the network, its this laptop.

I've had this problem with 2 different routers, and its always worked fine on the other laptop.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

[hovis]

Any ideas?



i get lots of ideas, but none that will help you in your quest for wireless tinternet

[pookie]

check to see if your router is set to support b/g and other network speeds. You dell maybe using an old wireless card speed. Also see if you can hard set the channel on the dell when connecting. Make sure your network card on your dell supports the encryption type you are using, wep , wpa etc. Lastly see if you have the correct drivers from dell and see if you can use theie wireless netowrk manager software. HTH

[arenalife]

Some old hardware likes you to use the wireless utility that is bespoke to the system, is there a wireless adapter utility in the program list? The standard windows wireless thing doesn't always work properly. Other than that, are drivers up to date etc. Also, check the wireless isn't set to use a proxy server (in the tcp settings somewhere usually).

[Miles]

Just downloaded a newer driver - and it now mudda fckuing works!!!!!