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I recently purchased an Acer laptop with an OEM version of Vista Home Basic, but I reformatted the drive and installed XP Pro instead.  It's got an Atheros AR5005G wireless chipset that I need...
I have an HP Pavilion ZV5000 notebook with integrated 802.11 wireless. Whenever I start it, I receive the following message: "104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. System Halted. R...
I recently had to replace my hard drive.  I have everything working fine except I have three piece of hardware that come up as found new hardware when i restart.  they show in system as PCI bu...
I have a supplystream modem for hardwired and wireless access. I have a notebook with a wireless card and am trying to utilize it. It finds the wireless network okay but won't connect. Under s...
I'm having trouble configuring my Netgear Powerline Wireless Range Extenders. I have 2 laptops both wireless, both connect to my Sky Netgear Router. When the NPWRE are plugged in all lights fi...
System = Dell Vostro 1500 Laptop O/S = Windows XP Professional, SP2 Wireless Lan = Broadcom BCM94312MCG (on the label) Problem: Need help finding the correct driver for this , please advise
What is the difference between WPA-PSK (AES) and WPA-PSK (TKIP)?
Hello, I recently installed a D-link router as an access point and my computer connects to it just fine .....it only prompts me for the security passphrase. However the other laptop whic...
I have a Belkin ADSL Router which works fine with laptops and other devices using wireless connections. For some reason the XBOX 360 refuses to connect. I have tried disabling all the firewall...
I have just done a clean Vista Business install on a Vaio VGN-FZ11Z. I had previously downloaded the necessary drivers and utilities from the support Web site, and I started to install them on...
Hello all, 4 APs (Cisco aironet 1130) with overlaping, WPA/TKIP, 802.1x authentication, Protected EAP, MSCHAP v2 without "Automatically use my Windows logon username", hidden SSID, machine ...
I have just installed XP pro onto a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo which came with Vista and cannot find the XP drivers for the Atheros AR5005G wireless network adapter anywhere.I found the drivers for...
My work just issued me a new IBM T42 laptop which I hear is supposed to have built in wi-fi.  I am unable to get the wi-fi to turn on.  Here are some details... Operating System = Windows 2...
I recently got a laptop from Toshiba. I can't seem to get the wireless fn-F8 keep to function off and on. It does nothing when I hit the function key and F8 and it doesn't seem to be another w...
What is the Advantages and disadvantages of Radio Frequency communications  vs. Infrared communications.  For example Bandwidth, FCC Regulation, Interference and eavesdropping
I have a dell d610 laptop. I need to us eth wireless calpabilty that it has so that it will automatically detect wireless network. But I do not know how to do it. Do i need to install some dri...
I too have had my bluetooth device unistalled on my Dell Inspiron 6000. I downloaded the the patch posted on Expert Exchange but the file would not finsh downloading. At arounf 56% of complete...
Hello. I've read several posts that are similar but I cannot manage to solve the problem. Problem: I've just downgraded my computer to XP Pro (SP3). I've installed all drivers following Son...
I have a cisco AP1242 that was previously configured with high security measures. I need to reset the device for new application use. The admin password is unknown. It seems the MODE bottun is...
I am trying to configure my Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini card due to poor signal strength. I need to know the purpose for the afterburner and should it be enabled or disabled?
I have a Compaq F730US laptop that is set up to search and connect to wireless networks using "HP Wireless Assistant." Yesterday I tried to connect; no wireless networks appeared. The wireless...
We have several new Dell Lattitude D610 laptops. We have problems with our wireless reliability. There are a dozen or so Advanced settings listed under the NIC configuration. I have tried to l...
I have a Dlink di-524 wireless router and it had been giving me some problems i.e. randomly loseing connection, etc. So I decided to upgrade the firmware. I downloaded the firmware for the cor...
A client is contracting with a company that has an operations room with a pit.   The company's users are clamoring for wireless connections for the 15 laptops that will be working in the pi...
i tried configuring my wireless network adapter using atheros client utility, unfortunately, the enable and disable option is not clickable. how do i make it clickable? can the firewall config...