No Wireless Card Detected

[Highfive]

Hello,
I'm trying to connect a flat-mate's computer to a wireless network. He's using a 802.11b Wireless USB adapter on his Windows ME machine and his LAN settings has a manual IP address of 192.168.0.4, a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and a gateway of the router 192.168.0.1. His network is set to Windows Logon and no TCP settings other than the adapter are present. I've gone to Internet Options--> Connections --> Internet Setup and chosen 'I want to connect to the internet manually through a LAN connection' (or something like that. I wish I knew what settings that wizard actually changed).
His computer still isn't connecting to the internet and an error message 'No Wireless Card detected' is appearing, even though the latest drivers for it for ME are installed, the wireless status monitor shows an excellent connection and the card is working fine in the Device Manager. ActionTec 802.11b support pages say to disconnect the adapter and re-plug it again, but this doesn't not fix it.

I'd appreciate any advice you can give.


<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Highfive on 09/07/05 06:48 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[kwebb]

"an error message 'No Wireless Card detected' "

Elaborate on that. When is that message seen. The sequence of events and what type of error? IE, Windows etc...

If you can ping the router's IP from the workstation then the wireless connection is working and doing it's job.

 

[Highfive]

Thanks for responding. Basically, after the machine boots up and the Windows ME splash screen appears, the desktop loads up and all the taskbar icons like the virus scanner and MSN messenger appear. When the wireless connection icon appears, showing green to indicate a strong connection, a dialogue box appears at the same time, "No Wireless Card detected" and an Okay button below it. Click Okay and the dialogue box disappears.

 

[umheint0]

Uninstall and reinstall the adapter and configuration software. It'll probably resolve it.

umheint0's phat setup --> <A HREF="http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umheint0/system.html" target="_new">http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umheint0/system.html</A><--

 

[Highfive]

Thanks umheint0,

I've uninstalled the drivers and adapter, then reinstalled them again and the error no longer appears. The internet connection still wasn't working, but I found the solution on this page: http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/icsclient_tcpip_manual.htm

I didn't have DNS enabled before, so I turned it on, gave a DNS name (just Client would do) and specified the DNS addresses given with the router. Problem solved.