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Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
13-07-2011 9:32 PM
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Very occasionally it will connect wirelessly to the Thomson TG585v8 router, but mainly won't, and sometimes youcan detect that it is lacking an IP address.
If I make encryption disabled, the laptop will connect. I don't want to leave the router unprotected, however! Also, ethernet cable works perfectly, if you don't trip over the cable!
I am not very familiar with finding my way round the more advanced internet connection settings, and I would greatly appreciate any advice anybody can give me.
Thanks in advance
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13-07-2011 9:44 PM
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Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
13-07-2011 10:26 PM
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Do you mean PC-Card or PCMCIA?
That is a VERY OLD card that only supports 802.11b, not g.
Chances are it doesn't have enough "poke" to do what you want.
I'd get a newer card, plenty on eBay going cheap.
Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
14-07-2011 11:38 AM
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I have also got a recently bought USB wi-fi dongle, so I will try that first, and see what happens. As you say, you could get a new PCMCIA wi-fi card for about £10 to 15 on Amazon or e-bay.
AxeMurderer, I received the card secondhand from my son, with no driver disc. Windows supplied the appropiate driver.
Thanks to you both, I will report on progress when I have tried my USB wi-fi dongle.
Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
14-07-2011 11:58 AM
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Quote from: alberthall2 Apologies!
I was only joking!
A PCMCIA card will generally give better results than USB.
If the laptop has an internal slot for a mini-pci wireless card (and inbuilt aerial) even better. No idea if that model has though.
Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
14-07-2011 12:25 PM
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Quote from: alberthall2 I am attempting to use an Acer laptop (Aspire 1352LC) with a PCMI wireless connector (D-link Air DWL-610). OS is Windows XP.
Very occasionally it will connect wirelessly to the Thomson TG585v8 router, but mainly won't, and sometimes youcan detect that it is lacking an IP address.
If I make encryption disabled, the laptop will connect. I don't want to leave the router unprotected, however! Also, ethernet cable works perfectly, if you don't trip over the cable!
I am not very familiar with finding my way round the more advanced internet connection settings, and I would greatly appreciate any advice anybody can give me.
Thanks in advance
Hi Albert,
I would try altering the wireless interface type to an older standard (one that was standard when the PCMCIA card would have been manufactured). To try this log into the router via http://192.168.1.254 and...
Click 'Home Network' on the left
Click on your wireless network name in the page that loads
Click 'Configure' in the top right
Change the interface type to 802.11b/g and click apply
If that doesn't help then try changing the interface type to 802.11b
I'm hopeful that this will solve your problems.
Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
17-07-2011 8:02 PM
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Quote Change the interface type to 802.11b/g and click apply
If that doesn't help then try changing the interface type to 802.11b
Regrettably, wireless connection with either of the two recommended settings when encryption was in force did not work. When encryption was disabled, connection was possible as before.
So, I tried a USB wireless connection stick that I bought fairly recently. Unexpectedly, this did not work either.
So, does that mean that the problem arises from a setting on the laptop (or the laptop itself)?
To assist diagnosis, I attach 3 files, 2 screen dumps from the pc card, one with the USB stick.
Any further suggestions would be welcomed!
Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
17-07-2011 8:08 PM
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I would ask someone more "au fait" with the technology to assist you in person, doing it remotely through here is likely to be a long slow & frustrating process.
Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
17-07-2011 8:40 PM
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Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
17-07-2011 9:15 PM
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Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
19-07-2011 10:27 PM
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I subsequently found the USB driver configuration settings area, and fiddled around with that, and now wireless is working with the USB stick. GOOD! :). many thanks.
Still one residual problem: If I leave the USB stick in the laptop, it won’t boot up. If, while it is refusing to boot, you remove the stick, then it will boot properly. You can reinsert the stick when it has booted up, and it will soon find the wireless network and receive it. Any suggestions?
This does leave the issue of the PC card or PCMCIA card. It would be nice to get that operational, although the pressure is definitely off, now that the USB stick is working. It is interesting that this device did work with an earlier Thomson router.
Any further suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks again.
Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
19-07-2011 11:42 PM
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Quote from: alberthall2 Reed, followed your advice (up to a point). With the USB stick inserted,, went into change advanced settings, wireless settings, and found the "use windows to configure my wireless settings" was unticked, so I ticked it.
That's what I would have done.
Quote from: alberthall2 The laptop then connected wirelessly using the USB stick.
Excellent
Quote from: alberthall2 However, the box unticked itself upon restarting.
That would be because the control software that came with the wireless adaptor launched automatically and wrested back control of the adaptor. I'm glad you managed to fight it down.
Quote from: alberthall2 Still one residual problem: If I leave the USB stick in the laptop, it won’t boot up. Any suggestions?
Have a look at the boot order settings in your BIOS. Try setting the hard drive or hard drive group first in the boot order.
Re: Laptop with PCMI card won't connect to router wirelessly
20-07-2011 8:59 AM
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Quote from: alberthall2 Still one residual problem: If I leave the USB stick in the laptop, it won’t boot up. If, while it is refusing to boot, you remove the stick, then it will boot properly. You can reinsert the stick when it has booted up, and it will soon find the wireless network and receive it. Any suggestions?
I've seen many systems with weird behaviour due to USB devices being connected at power-on.
Sometimes the only solution is to do exactly what you are, i.e. connect once the OS is running.
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