My laptop harddrive recently died and when a new one was installed I did not get all my old programs back. I downloaded Acer's recovery disk for the Aspire 1690 for windows xp and ran it on my laptop. As far as I know everything loaded as it should. However I still cannot connect via wireless. No problems using a cord but the wireless has me stumped. I have tried many combinations of Network Authentication being Shared or Open or WPA or WPA-PSK but nothing works so far. Does anyone know what the preferred or default selections are under "Association"? Should I enable IEEE 802.1x authentication? (I have tried it but maybe not in conjunction with the right other combinations.....). A couple of times I have done something almost right...I was informed that I was connected but I wasn't. When I tried to do something I was told that I would lose my connection if I disconnected but since I was also told (at the top of the window) that I was not connected I didn't see how that would matter.
Does any of this ring a bell with anyone. Grateful for any advice.
What sort of wireless card does that carry. Sometimes it's easier to get the right drivers from that website, instead of through the OEM computer folks.
SOURCE: Network Authentication in Vista
Right click the network icon in the system tray, and click Properties, from there, click Authentication.
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I am not sure what we are talking about (sorry) but it could be that you mean the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 220BG Network Connection which is the only thing I see listed under the Device Manager that might be referring to a wireless card.
By the way I also see that I have these other network adapters listed: 1394 NEt Adapter; Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet; and MAC Bridge Miniport. Is the latter something that should be on a PC?
Thanks for your continued thoughts...
Bruce
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