Dell D600 wireless connection

dipsy

HI

just reinstalled win xp on dell d600, I have tried the fn F2 buttons but it keeps saying wireless is unavailable, but picks up wireless routers in the area

I am guessing for some reason the wireless is not connected, but prior to installing win xp again, it was working.

does anyone have any pointers, and there are no conflicts in device manager

Many thanks

Notmyrealname

You need to install the correct drivers. Is it disabled in the BIOS?

dipsy

Hi yes enabled in bios, but the bluetooth is not enabled, but that wouldn't affect it would it?

also uninstalled the wireless card and rebooted and it found the same one again, and installed the drivers....

Im totally puzzled

dipsy

oh and it says when I click on the adapter icon in the task bar

SSID:
status: not assigned
signal quality/strength 0% out of range 0%

does that mean anything to anyone?

thanks

closed

installed sp2/3?

can it see your router, and have you put the key in to connect

are all drivers installed in device manager?

dipsy

no.... I haven't but surely it should work without these?

i mean sp2/3

I have all drivers installed no conflicts in device manager

Yes it can see my router and wep key put in

but it doesn't connect

:-(

closed

does your router use wep?

dipsy

Yes it does...

closed

if your card, service pack (which is why I mentioned sp2), and router supports wpa-psk/tkip, it's preferable and less problematic to use that instead of wep

dipsy

hmmmm, I am on my own laptop at the moment and it says WPA, I wonder if I got it wrong on the other laptop... will check, maybe its already WPA....

thanks for that I will check

dipsy

yes its def WEP, will I be able to download the service packs on here and transfer across?

cheers again