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January 25th, 2006 16:00
How to re-enable auto wireless/lan switchover
Hey All, I installed a new Mini PCI card in my 5100 laptop. Loaded drivers and all was good. Worked great. Problem was It would automatically turn on my wireless and connect using the wireless card when I disconnected my lan cable which I didn't like. I disabled/turned off the wireless so it wouldn't do the auto switchover. Now I can't turn on the wireless card. The card is an Atheros 5400. Under control panel-internal nic card power management it says the current state of internal nic is OFF. I don't see any where in this screen to enable the nic, nor under my power management options. It only has to enable or disable nic on battery power or not. I reenabled it on Bat power, but still shows it is off. I am plugged-in to good power, and 2 other laptops see and connect to my wireless nw just fine. When I open wireless connections, I get "no wireless networks found in range". I think this is because my NW card is not turned-on. My Lan connection is fine-I'm online with it now. I have a Netgear access point connected to my router which is how the other 2 laptops are connecting just fine. (both are rurned-off right now). Also when I try IPCONFIG it says of the Atheros card "Media state disconnected"
I need some help please to reenabe this thing. Thanks, Jamie
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LtLeary
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January 25th, 2006 16:00
Lets start with easy and work our way up.
Try the Fn F2 key combination. And let us know if that works for you.
LT
Hitkredneck797
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January 25th, 2006 17:00
LtLeary
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January 25th, 2006 23:00
Great,
That normally means that your security (WEP or WPA) doesn't match that configured on the router. If using WEP, make sure the Key number and hex key matches...tif using WPA-PSK keep the phrase "case" the same (e.g all lower case on both)
You are alsmost there.
If the keys match, temporarily disable any firewall/Anti Virus you have on your laptop and see if your wireless connects then. If so, we know where to focus our efforts.
LT
Hitkredneck797
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January 26th, 2006 00:00
WEP/security disabled...ya I know thats bad. Wife has to work from home at times through a VPN and her work stuff doesn't like the secrity enabled. Have to go with Mac address filtering only and hidden ssid. Anyways, I haven't set up the mac filtering yet. Trying to get my laptop back on line first. Windows firewall is disabled cause I've got Norton IS/AV running, but haven't tried disabling that yet. In the middle of renduring a DVD home project for the wife so don't want to interupt anything. Will try the IS/AV disable tomorrow and will get back into the access point to make sure the settings agree with what I've got on my laptop.
Message Edited by Hitkredneck797 on 01-25-2006 09:44 PM