Wireless Card not Detected in Laptop

[leachim]

It is a Medion laptop about 4 years old with XP Home SP2

Can't connect via Wireless, even though the drivers are installed for the card in Device Manager and the icon says "One or more Wireless networks are detected - click this ballon to connect"

Windows is being used as the Wireless Utility and no wireless networks are listed, even though other laptops can detect them

Ipconfig says Media Disconnected about the Wireless Card in command prompt

The wireless light is switched on by pressing Fn and F1

Thanks

[z1p]

Hi leachim,

Can you run ipconfig/all in a command window and post the info back here? This will allow us to get a better idea of what is going on.

Is this built-in wireless or not?

Do you have encryption on?

[leachim]

Here it is

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Sheila Mathews>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Lucy
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Eth
ernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-40-D0-95-31-46

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 5:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Winbond W89C33 mPCI 802.11 Wireless
LAN Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-60-B3-5D-21-62

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No encryption

I found a Wireless connection utility that was underder drivers and WLAN on the C drive

Installed it - picked up the signal, but there was no way to connect - now uninstalled

Thanks

[z1p]

hi leachim,

What was the name of the wireless connection utility that you found?

What model Medion do you have? Are you sure it has built-in wireless as opposed to being wireless-ready? The reason I ask is because it appear that at least some of the Medion with the Winbond wireless adapter is really only wireless ready and need an additionally wireless card to have wireless capabilities. (See this page)

[leachim]

Thanks for that

If the wireless card was not installed, then it would not be listed in Device Manager - but it was.

Anyway - just installed a Netgear usb aerial and we are connected

Ha ! there is only so much time you can spend on something !

[z1p]

According to thread I linked to the other people were also seeing the Winbond adapter in there devices. I wouldn't think it would show up as having a wireless device if it was only wireless ready, but it seems like it does. I think you've made a good choice to go with the other adapter you have and I'm glad to hear you are now connected.