Wireless Network Problem

I am having a problem connecting to my wireless network now that I have
upgraded to Vista home premium. I downloaded the drivers from my D-Link
DWL-G510 PCI Wireless card, and windows recognizes it, however it will not
allow me to connect to my existing wireless network. This is the network I
always connected to with XP but now it says it is not compatible with router.
I checked the driver and it says it needs an update, but there is none
available on D-Links site.

Also, this was a PC I built with an Intel Motherboard, it is pretty new, it
uses a 533 Bus with a 2.53 GHZ chip plus 1GB of 333 Ram. However, the
motherboard needs a soundmax program and others to work propertly, and when I
try to download those Vista says it is not compatible with the operating
system. I know this isn't the right forum for this topic but I figured I'd
lump them together.

I connot connect to a wireless network at my hotel. it says that is it an
unsecured network i try to conntect anyways and it says it fails to connect
do to unknown reasons i need help for this asap
anybody knows anything plz help
darkestdragon22@yahoo.com

Are you sure the hotel let you use the wireless free? unsecured network doesn't mean any one can use it, for example, the wireless may setup Mac filter. Also some hotels may restrict the connections to prevent heavy traffic.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4EDED164-17F8-47E2-B2EE-97208E9F6CEE@microsoft.com...
I connot connect to a wireless network at my hotel. it says that is it an
unsecured network i try to conntect anyways and it says it fails to connect
do to unknown reasons i need help for this asap
anybody knows anything plz help
darkestdragon22@yahoo.com

yes the wireless is free and i have my other laptop that im using in my hotel
now but its XP Pro and it works fine but i put a wireless network card in the
vista laptop and now i can get to the network but can i change something so i
can use my onboard wireless network card its a atheros wireless card

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> Are you sure the hotel let you use the wireless free? unsecured network doesn't mean any one can use it, for example, the wireless may setup Mac filter. Also some hotels may restrict the connections to prevent heavy traffic.
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4EDED164-17F8-47E2-B2EE-97208E9F6CEE@microsoft.com...
> I connot connect to a wireless network at my hotel. it says that is it an
> unsecured network i try to conntect anyways and it says it fails to connect
> do to unknown reasons i need help for this asap
> anybody knows anything plz help
> darkestdragon22@yahoo

I bought a new HP Pavillion dv6000 with Windows Vista Home Premium about 2
months ago, and everything worked fine until today - I can not get on the
internet through the wireless network at my house anymore. There is one other
laptop (running XP) and a desktop (XP as well) on the network as well, and
they still work fine - I can access the internet and everything with them.
Has anybody seen this problem before? I have tried everything I can think of
to fix it, could it be a virus, or something wrong with the integrated
wireless card? Please help!

Silver Fox wrote:

> I bought a new HP Pavillion dv6000 with Windows Vista Home Premium about 2
> months ago, and everything worked fine until today - I can not get on the
> internet through the wireless network at my house anymore. There is one other
> laptop (running XP) and a desktop (XP as well) on the network as well, and
> they still work fine - I can access the internet and everything with them.
> Has anybody seen this problem before? I have tried everything I can think of
> to fix it, could it be a virus, or something wrong with the integrated
> wireless card? Please help!

The first thing to do is to look carefully at the machine and make sure
the wireless is on. The HP laptops I've seen lately have a small slider
switch on the front or side of the machine that turns the wireless on
and off.


Malke
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"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Silver Fox wrote:

>> I bought a new HP Pavillion dv6000 with Windows Vista Home Premium about
>> 2 months ago, and everything worked fine until today - I can not get on
>> the internet through the wireless network at my house anymore. There is
>> one other laptop (running XP) and a desktop (XP as well) on the network
>> as well, and they still work fine - I can access the internet and
>> everything with them. Has anybody seen this problem before? I have tried
>> everything I can think of to fix it, could it be a virus, or something
>> wrong with the integrated wireless card? Please help!

>
> The first thing to do is to look carefully at the machine and make sure
> the wireless is on. The HP laptops I've seen lately have a small slider
> switch on the front or side of the machine that turns the wireless on and
> off.
>
>
> Malke

You must work for technical support for HP.

Vista has a chronic problem losing connection with DNS and, occasionally,
DHCP servers. This will allow it local access only, despite there being an
internet connection through the modem and/or router that is accessible by XP
machines.

There are variety of fixes around that work, more or less, though I still
have problems with this from time to time. Removing IPv6 helps, and there
are some registry tweaks I've used which, unfortunately, I don't recall but
are documented in a number of places on the internet. Sometimes, the only
fix is to manually delete the wireless modem from Device Manager and let the
OS re-install it.

And, yes, when this happens, my wireless modem is on. Can I speak to Tier 2
support now?

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PTravel wrote:

>
> "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:%23xaETvzxHHA.1776@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> Silver Fox wrote:

>>> I bought a new HP Pavillion dv6000 with Windows Vista Home Premium
>>> about 2 months ago, and everything worked fine until today - I can
>>> not get on the internet through the wireless network at my house
>>> anymore. There is one other laptop (running XP) and a desktop (XP as
>>> well) on the network as well, and they still work fine - I can access
>>> the internet and everything with them. Has anybody seen this problem
>>> before? I have tried everything I can think of to fix it, could it be
>>> a virus, or something wrong with the integrated wireless card? Please
>>> help!

>>
>> The first thing to do is to look carefully at the machine and make
>> sure the wireless is on. The HP laptops I've seen lately have a small
>> slider switch on the front or side of the machine that turns the
>> wireless on and off.
>>
>>
>> Malke

>
> You must work for technical support for HP.
>
> Vista has a chronic problem losing connection with DNS and,
> occasionally, DHCP servers. This will allow it local access only,
> despite there being an internet connection through the modem and/or
> router that is accessible by XP machines.
>
> There are variety of fixes around that work, more or less, though I
> still have problems with this from time to time. Removing IPv6 helps,
> and there are some registry tweaks I've used which, unfortunately, I
> don't recall but are documented in a number of places on the internet.
> Sometimes, the only fix is to manually delete the wireless modem from
> Device Manager and let the OS re-install it.
>
> And, yes, when this happens, my wireless modem is on. Can I speak to
> Tier 2 support now?

No, I don't work for HP tech support. I just know from experience that
it is good to always start with the simplest thing; i.e., is it plugged
in/turned on? Of course there are many reasons for connectivity issues
and Vista isn't particularly ready for prime time with its drivers and
networking. But I thought the first thing to do was to ask the OP the
easy question, particularly because I've seen first-hand on these new HP
laptops how easy it is to accidentally move the wireless slider to OFF.


Malke
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