Can't Connect Re:Wireless

Question

3 weeks ago my husband bought me the Inspiron 1525 from dell and we haven't been able to connect to it wirelessly through bell. I have called the technical team from bell and we have tried every way we can think of to get it connected. It shows my network but just won't allow me to connect it.

I have been able to connect through a wire connected to the modem and have been able to piggyback from someone else in the area.

Does anyone have any ideas.

I have also been able to connect my WII to the modem wireless as well.

volcano11 · Answer

Which version of Windows?  Which wireless network adapter?  Which make and model wireless router?  Without this information, it makes it very difficult to guess what the problem is.   Steve

volcano11 · Answer

See if the following helps:   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233   Steve

Cherbear67 · Answer

Sorry all new to this.   I have windows vista, dell wireless 1395 wlan mini-card   Speed stream 6250   Hope this helps

Cherbear67 · Answer

Thanks will try this out. I appreciate it.

weelynnie · Answer

Hi. Sorry to put my nose in to your thread but I'd like to know if you solved this issue. I have exactly the same problem with the same machine and did the Registry changes, but it made no difference. The only difference between me and thee is that we are half a world apart, as I live in France and,of course, my router is different. I even tried connecting through a friends router. Same problem. I'm now going to take it to our local MacDonalds as they have a free hotspot and if that doesn't work, I'm going to phone Dell and aske them to send a technician. Can't think of any other way to solve it. I did have one problem when I went into the Registry, one of the Tcpip/Parameters/Interface/Subkeys would allow access. Said there was a problem. I wonder if this is problem.:smileyhappy:

Cherbear67 · Answer

Thanks for the help but that didn't work for me. Will have to try and figure something else out.

volcano11 · Answer

Please be more specific. Did you actually try the registry edit suggested in the Microsoft article?

Do you have any wireless security (WEP or WPA) enabled on the modem/router? If so, does it work if you temporarily disable the security?

I can't find the modem/router's user guide online. Is it a 6250 (as you have said) or a 6520? Does it have any MAC address filtering enabled?

To help further troubleshoot this problem, on the computer with the problem, go to Start > Run and type cmd then click OK. In the command prompt window that opens, type ipconfig /all then hit the enter key. Write down the output from this command or select it and save it to a txt file, then copy this output into a reply to this message.

Steve

Message Edited by volcano11 on 03-22-2008 03:50 PM

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Can't Connect Re:Wireless

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