[guerin]

Hi hope someone can help me

I've just bought a Toshiba laptop running windows vista premium. I am trying to use the internal wireless card (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG adapter) to connect to my linksys WRT54G Wireless Router but not having much luck.

I have 3 other PC's in the house (1 vista ultimate & 2 Win XP Pro) all with linksys adapters connecting without any problems. I have switched off the wpa-psk (TKIP) security to try and fix this problem but it does not seem to help. The laptop connects to the router but does not get a valid IP address (192.168.20.x). Running an ipconfig /all from a command prompt shows the address to be a local 169.254.72.152.

If you need any more info plaese let me know

Hope somebody knows a fix for this problem

Cheers

Dominic

[guerin]

Just tried to connect the laptop via ethernet but no joy either!! Just getting a 169.x.x.x address

[guerin]

I have just uninstalled the Vodafone Mobile connect software that I'm using to control my vodafone PC Card (HUAWEI E620) and the Intel wireless card is working again!!

There is obviously a compatability issue here with the software so will have to talk to vodafone about why this is happening as there software is supposed to work with WLAN cards too!!

If anyone knows anything about this problem please could they let me know

Cheers

Dominic

[eveen]

Hi,

I'm having the same problem with an Acer Travelmate 5623 with Vista Business.
It has a intel wireless network card (3945) that is working fine with several accesspoints.

Until... i installed the vodafone mobile connect software (version 9.x.x).
Then the problems connecting to the accesspoints started. The accesspoint is visible and the network card tries to connect, but it doesn't receive an IP address.

Uninstalling the vodafone mobile connect software and rebooting the laptop was the only solution I found to connect to the wireless accesspoint.

Does anybody have a different solution?

[eveen]

I found a solution on the internet...

You need to:
1. Uninstall Vodafone Mobile Connect Dashboard software v9.x.x
2. Install Vodafone Mobile Connect Dashboard software v9.x.x
3. When prompted for "Setup Type" Choose "Custom"
4. Click "Next" twice to continue
5. Under "Select Program Features you want Installed" deselect "Optimisation Software"
6. Complete the installation as normal.

This worked on my Vista laptop.
I'm actually typing on it right now with de mobile connect software installed and connected through my wrt54gl.