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November 4th, 2005 18:00

Help. Wireless card fails intermittently. Read more...

Here's the scenario: I'll be surfing online and I'll type in a URL and it says the page cannot be found. I look down and my Windows wireless signal is full strength. So, I try to use the Windows "repair" function - and it tells me that the wireless card is not installed properly. I check out the card under Device Manager and it has failed to start. I then think this is weird - so I just restart the computer. Now it tells me that some new PCMCIA device with UNKNOWN MANUFACTURER has been installed, but that there are no drivers for it! Wait a minute! It was working fine a second ago. So, I remove the device and reinstall the drivers and get everything working just fine. Only, to get the "page cannot be found" error again and then my wireless card fails to respond.

So, then I just eject the card and reseat it - bam! The wireless signal is reestablished and I am surfing again - but not for long - it fails again. After reinstalling the drivers a million times, I figured out that I can just eject / reinsert and the card is recognized properly with the drivers.

Why is it doing this? I called D-Link (its a DWL-650_revP) and they went through everything. Finally suggested it might be a power management problem or some kind of hardware conflict.

Someone please help!! This is driving me nuts!

Here's what I have done:
Totally removed the card as hardware and reinstalled drivers and software.
Updated my Dell BIOS
Updated my Windows patches/updates
Not installed new programs recently
Not running any virus protection software

Help!

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November 4th, 2005 22:00

Thanks. I tried this option under Advanced called Power Saving.

The existing choice was "Not Present". I changed it to "Disabled."

I am still having the problem though.

My laptop is a 2650.
Wireless is D-Link DWL-650.

I have this problem on my school network and home network. None of my friends have this problem though..

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November 4th, 2005 22:00

If you go into Device Manager, expand the listings for network adapters, select the wireless adapter, click on the Properties button and then on the Advanced tab, is the a box you can check/uncheck to enable/disable power management on the card.  If there is, try disabling any power management.
 
If this doesn't help, please tell us which model computer you have for further troubleshooting.
 
Steve

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November 4th, 2005 22:00

Do you happen to have or have access to another wireless PC card that you can try?  If so, it would help determine whether or not the problems lies with the card or the PC card slot on the computer.

Steve

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November 5th, 2005 13:00

I don't. I might ask the tech folks at school if they have a spare card I can try out.
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