From: "RobertB." 


Well, he spoke with Dell. After making him uninstall and reinstall the card
and the drivers (without success), Dell decided the card was bad. Maybe,
maybe not. But we'll see if that is the problem I guess. I passed on the
upnp information though.


r.


In article ,
 "RobertB."  wrote:

> OK. I've passed it on. thanks. Let's see what happens now.
> r.
>
>
>
> In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
>
> > Go here http://grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm and get that, turn off UPNP and see
> > if that makes a difference.
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "RobertB."  wrote in message
> > news:rb28-E662CC.13523330012005{at}w3.nls.net...
> > >
> > > Uhh, this is a brother-in-law question, so my information is limited,
> > > but. . . his son's girlfriend just bought a Dell Inspiron 1150, which
> > > has a wireless card. My brother-in-law has a wireless router in the
> > > basement, a Linksys WRT54G I think. They have three other computers
> > > attached to the router (two are hard wired), one new iMac and two
> > > Windows machines.
> > >
> > > Here's what happens, whenever he starts the Dell (running XP) the Dell
> > > wireless card connects to the router (or tries to) and then knocks all
> > > the other machines off the network connection. The Dell itself never
> > > connects to the Internet. At this point he has to deactive the Dell's
> > > wireless card, go downstairs and reboot the router.
> > >
> > > This is a brand new machine, so the solution is probably relatively
> > > simple. The Dell is running XP. The wireless card is a 1350 PCI card
> > > that supports or uses the Aegis IEEE 802.1x protocol.
> > >
> > > He says that when he tries to examine the Properties menu for the
> > > wireless card, it's blank. Last I knew he was about to call
Dell. Ouch.
> > >
> > > He did manage to successfully connect the Dell with an Ethernet cable,
> > > by the way, so it appears to be a wireless issue.
> > >
> > > Is there a simple answer to this?
> > >
> > > robert
> >
> >

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