Viewing Wireless Connections

Question

I have a Inspsiron 1150 with a built in Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card. When I trouble shoot the card, system tells me everything is OK. Yet, when I open the Network Connections window and click the "View Available Wireless Connections", the message I get is:

"No Wireless networks were found in range". My friend has a dell and brought his laptop over and was able to connect to my Netgear wireless router without any problems.

Can you tell me why I cannot find my Netgear connection?

I also did a ipconfig/all and below is what was displayed.

Windows IP Configuration

       Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : D3G2LF51
       Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
       Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed
       IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
       WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

       Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
       Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Cont
roller
       Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-1F-1F-EF-84
       Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
       IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
       Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
       Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
       DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
       DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
       Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, August 04, 2006 6:40:16 AM
       Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, August 05, 2006 6:40:16 AM

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

       Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
       Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 WLAN Mini-PC
I Card
       Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-90-96-CC-DC-A4

Thank you,

Peterpalm

volcano11 · Answer

Re-run the ipconfig /all command without the ethernet cable plugged into the router.  Post the results.  Is your router broadcasting its SSID?  If not, enable SSID broadcasting.  Do you have MAC address filtering enabled on the router?  If so, temporarily disable it.    Steve

volcano11 · Answer

That is the same output as you first posted.  I had asked you to run it without the ethernet cable plugged in! Steve

Peterpalm · Answer

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the quick response. There is another Dell right next to me and is able to connect, so I do not know about the SSID or MAC. Below is the IPconfig without the cable connected.

Windows IP Configuration

       Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : D3G2LF51
       Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
       Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed
       IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
       WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

       Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
       Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Cont
roller
       Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-1F-1F-EF-84
       Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
       IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
       Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
       Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
       DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
       DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
       Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, August 04, 2006 6:40:16 AM
       Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, August 05, 2006 6:40:16 AM

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

       Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
       Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 WLAN Mini-PC
I Card
       Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-90-96-CC-DC-A4

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