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    Need urgent help on wireless connection!

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by joycecylam, Dec 3, 2005.

  1. joycecylam

    joycecylam Notebook Consultant

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    My laptop has a built-in wireless lan which automatically got me into the Internet once I turned on the machine. Now I'm not able to do so. The wireless connection does not automatically start at startup, nor can I get it started manually.

    The problem happened right after I have made some changes in the msconfig & services.msc (I was trying to follow the recommendations posted in "How to optimize your laptop performance" thread in the same forum.). I suspect that I must have done something wrong but I can't remember what kind of changes I have made.

    Can someone help me out here?
     
    joycecylam, Dec 3, 2005
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Try re-installing the driver/application.
     
    ZaZ, Dec 3, 2005
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    joycecylam Notebook Consultant

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    How should I do that? I only have the recovery cds that came with the machine. Appreciate if you can further explain as I'm not tech savvy.
     
    joycecylam, Dec 3, 2005
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    nickspohn Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Do a google search for your card then put driver downloads behind that.
     
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    What card/laptop is it? You should be able to download it from the laptop maker's website.
     
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    joycecylam Notebook Consultant

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    I finally got it fixed. The problem was that I accidentally disabled the "Wireless Zero Configuration" while making changes in services.msc. I have now changed from "Disabled" to "Automatic", and that solved the problem.
     
    joycecylam, Dec 3, 2005
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