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WLAN problems

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by JRD, 2007/06/16.

  1. 2007/06/16
    JRD

    JRD Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi! I've recently moved to the states from Australia, and my wireless card stopped working.

    I'm running a Compaq Presario Laptop with a Broadcom 802.11b/g wireless card. I tried to uninstall/reinstall the device when the problem occured: the card wouldn't uninstall as it says the device was needed to boot up the computer.

    I tried to reinstall after this and the installer says: "Installation cannot be finished as the system cannot find the file specified. "

    I've tried numerous time to reinstall the driver from files downloaded from the Broadcom website but nothing has helped.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks! James
     
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  2. 2007/06/18
    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    1. rt click My Network Places on desktop > select properties
    2. rt click Wireless Network icon > select Properties
    3. ensure there's a checkmark in 2 boxes at bottom of dialog window (display icon in taskbar)
    4. at top should be box w/ something like "let Windows manage my wifi connection ". Put check there.
    5. Double click the wifi icon in system tray > click on "view availabe wireless networks ".
    7. When scanning completes, click on "change order of preferred networks ".
    8. if your old Australian wlan is in the list, remove it.
    9. click on "view available nets in range ".
    10. after scan completes, try to connect to your new wlan.

    Also, re the "can't uninstall" : this is probably because there's a Broadcom wireless connection utility set to load at boot, either via Start > Programs > Startup or a registry key in HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/ Current version/Run/. Remove it from either location if it exists.
     
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