Wireless Router

[drfsupercenter]

I installed the nVidia drivers properly - kick the company for that! As far as the router goes, that driver is installed fine.

[Chewy]

I installed the nVidia drivers properly - kick the company for that! As far as the router goes, that driver is installed fine.

Not knowing your motherboard(old or new)? you might need a
mobo chipset driver, that would give you the agp and enable the vid card.

Did you get the wireless network working?

[drfsupercenter]

It is a PCI card - and a Dell motherboard, about 3 years old.

[Chewy]

Dell has decent support they should have downloads for your model,
of course if you added a vid card they won't have that, but it's probably your agp/nothbridge chipset on the motherboard that you need a driver for.
Or is the onboard video still enabled in bios?

[drfsupercenter]

Dell has decent support

Yeah right. They recently switched to a new system that makes you pay for software support - all that is free is hardware - and they wouldn't even help me install a hard drive because "it was not a Dell product". So basically that is not an option. As for AGP, I do not even have an AGP port - it is a PCI card. I installed the drivers off the CD but I guess that did not get recognised by XP. However, I will try the My Network Places when I get home - I am at school now.

[Chewy]

agp has been out for several years, did you have onboard video?
That would have been agp!
If your pci vid card is in the top slot it's probably sharing resources.
The northbridge chipset on the motherboard is in charge of agp and usb.
Dell doesn't charge for driver downloads, AFAIK!

These things are all interconnected(related).

rightclick desktop/properties/settings
what's it say about your video?

[tigerman8u]

I would d/l the drivers for the mb including newest video drivers etc. and get rid of the yellow check marks.

[drfsupercenter]

Well, nonetheless my video card works perfectly so I have no idea about the question marks. That has nothing to do with the router however. I had integrated graphics card - and I disabled it. It may be AGP but I do not have an AGP port as to insert an AGP card into. As far as the PCI slot I am not sure if it is in the top or the middle.

[drfsupercenter]

Here are some more screenshots for you:

http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/2...kplaces3ke.png <-- My Network Places
http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/4...ections2of.png <-- Network Connections
http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/8818/status7pi.png <-- Wireless Network Connection Status
http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/6140/details2hn.png <-- Network Connection Details

As you can see, My Network Places is empty. Is that why it is not automatically connecting? Or is there another problem?

[Chewy]

Did you run the network setup wizard?(echo)

[steveareno1955]

I too had the same problem. My computer had no problem connecting to the linksys router and I don't know if it was after one of XP's important downloads but my computer quit seeing the router and I had to fix the connection everytime. Thought my old Linksys was going kaput so I went out and bought a brand new one and it did the same thing. Started to mess around and shut off the Zonealarm firewall and guess what no problem. My main computer is the only one I used Zonealarm on. Switched back to XP's firewall and it works fine. One of my laptops has zonealarm on it but its XP home edition and it has no problem. Just the one that had Pro on it.

Don't know if this will help you but it worked for me.

[drfsupercenter]

I do not use Zonealarm - Just Windows firewall. As for network setup wizard, I did that when I first opened Internet Explorer. Should I click to Add a network place to My Network Places?

[Chewy]

When I create a Lan(workgroup), I use the network setup wizard,
start/programs/accessories/communications/........
then I name the workgroup and answer the questions, reboot, let
them all see each other, share files etc.
Now browsemaster elections are another story, vbg!

[drfsupercenter]

Hmm. I am quite the opposite of you - I am good with software but really bad with hardware.

I can try removing the network - as it was just a default setting, and I have no idea how it was set up - I just said "I have a broadband connection" and then I could get on the Internet. I will try setting it up your way and hope it works



Heh, the reason it worked before is probably because my dad put it on for me, and he knows a bit more about that stuff, mainly because some of his clients are good with computers

[Floppy]

Um... Those yellow question marks are for the Other Devices or whatever. As you can see, the wireless router, the one above the question marks, works fine. And pardon me for sounding stupid, but WHERE do I right click? Where do I find the My Network Places icon to right click on?

Not necessarily for other devices or whatever unless you have other devices yet to be installed...

What Im trying to say is that some devices have other hardware that also need drivers... However I notice you have a ethernet controller unistalled with a interrogation mark under device manager. get the drivers for it and away you go....