Help! my 2200BG says its connected but nothing happens!

Hey guys, i realize that this card has been discussed at length on these boards and ive been scouring here for the last couple of days and havent found a similar situation to mine, so Im hoping you all can help me. Ive got an Inspiron 6000 with an Intel 2200BG wireless card. I got the computer in december and it has worked fine ever since, up until about a week ago when the wireless capability unexpectedly stopped working for no apparent reason. I hadnt installed any new hardware or software. Im using a linksys wrt54g router, which has also worked well. It would connect and give me the 'excellent' connection strength and my speed is 54 mbps and all that jazz, but it wouldnt receive any information. the packets recieved is always zero. As of now im connecting through a physical ethernet cable and the router is working fine. I tried updating my Intel Proset/wireless software to the 10.1.1 version or whatever is teh most recent from the Intel website and it gives me the same stuff. says im connected but nothign actually gets recieved. So i uninstalled that version and tried teh version 9.something from dell's website and that worked great, for a few days, then it suddenly stopped working again. Since then i hvea installed and uninstalled every combination of drivers/software for my wireless card i can find, old versions, new versions, and so far nothing. I have also updated teh firmware on my router.

Can anybody give me at least some pointers in teh right direction to help me firgure out whats wrong? It says im connected but nothing acutally goes through. Is this a problem with my 2200BG or with my router?

thanks for any insight or help you can give.
-Dan

 

Remove the Intel Proset Wireless application (not the drivers, so choose MODIFY instead of UNINSTALL) from your Add/Remove programs and use Windows XP's (you are running XP right?) wireless network connection manager thing.
The Intel Proset Wireless is a terribly poor resource hogging piece of bugged software. Removing it will at least give your machine a slight performance boost, if not solve your problem.

 

Thanks for teh suggestion but I already tried that. You are right that it gave my machine a performance boost, but unfortunately even with just the drivers installed and using windows to manage it, it still didnt work...same results. Im starting to think maybe its a problem with my router.

Thanks anyway though.

 

last X'mas my internal wifi card did exactly what you said - been working for year and a half and one day suddenly called it quits. Said I was connected but could not get data transfer. It turned out eventually that the card 'semi-died' before finally stopping connecting all together a couple of months later. I now run off a pcmcia wifi card.

Not suggesting that is your problem, but think problems like this, equipment dying, can happen anywhere in your connection chain - modem, router, wifi chip on your cpt. Easiest way to trouble shoot it is to sub and replace with something that is known to work, one piece of equipment at a time.