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Wireless 80211 b/g mini pci card not seeing wireless network

post #1 of 21
3/18/04 at 3:44pm
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Everythings running fine on my new 8790 now except for one thing. I cannot get the wireless card to see my network. I have a linksys 802.11b router/base station that works fine. My old dell 8500 could see the network as well as my toshiba e740. My sager however cannot see any wireless network. I d/l the newest drivers from the sager site and my wireless pci card was identified as a gigabyte wireless card. The windows xp utility and the gigabyte utility can both neither see the wireless network. I have enable the card and it says its sending RF signals. But still, cannot see the network. Any ideas? Thanks!
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post #2 of 21
3/18/04 at 4:07pm
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Originally Posted by valkrien
Everythings running fine on my new 8790 now except for one thing. I cannot get the wireless card to see my network. I have a linksys 802.11b router/base station that works fine. My old dell 8500 could see the network as well as my toshiba e740. My sager however cannot see any wireless network. I d/l the newest drivers from the sager site and my wireless pci card was identified as a gigabyte wireless card. The windows xp utility and the gigabyte utility can both neither see the wireless network. I have enable the card and it says its sending RF signals. But still, cannot see the network. Any ideas? Thanks!
Do you have the latest firmware for the LinkSys? I had to update mine last night when I started trying to get the WiFi to work. ALso check to insure that you hae the latest firmware for the WiFi in the 8790. I think, but am not sure if my Son downloaded one late last night.
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post #3 of 21
3/18/04 at 4:12pm
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Sounds good. I'll try to get both firmwares right now. Thanks for the tip!
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post #4 of 21
3/18/04 at 4:41pm
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Does anyone know the model of the wireless in the 8790? Im on the gigiabyte home page but there are several models to choose from. I dont want to flash the wrong firmware. Thanks again!
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post #5 of 21
3/18/04 at 4:44pm
Here is what I have:

Network Adapter:Gigabyte GN-WIAG Wireless Network miniPCI Adapter

Hope this helps.
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post #6 of 21
3/18/04 at 4:47pm
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Hmmm. Thats what i found also. Funny thing is there is no mention of this part on the gigabyte site.
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post #7 of 21
3/18/04 at 7:32pm
We flashed the router and not the internal WiFi. Sorry for the confusion.
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post #8 of 21
3/19/04 at 1:49pm
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Well i solved the problem. I hate it when the solution costs more money, but had to do it. Went down and bought a netgear 802.11g wireless station and the sager saw it no problem. So the Linksys 802.11b v2.2 is not compatable with the sager card even with the latest firmware installed to it. Glad to see it wasnt the card in the sager however so im happy.
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post #9 of 21
3/19/04 at 3:35pm
This may be a dumb question but shouldn't the internal wireless card with the 8790 be backwards compatible? I am not a guru when it comes to wireless networking.
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post #10 of 21
3/19/04 at 3:37pm
The reason I asked is because I have the 8790 and my wireless card does not seem to pick up anything. Did you use their utility to configure it or did you use windows?
Is everything else enabled/disabled?
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post #11 of 21
3/19/04 at 4:31pm
Mine has worked wonderfully with my LinkSys 802.11b Access Point.
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post #12 of 21
3/19/04 at 4:43pm
I just confirmed that mine works with a Linksys 802.11b as well. The model # is WAP11. It's the older version, not the 2.2, 2.6, or 2.8. Firmware is 1.4i.1.

By the way, does the TURBO mode work with the Netgear router?
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post #13 of 21
3/19/04 at 8:22pm
My neighbor hasn't incorporated any security on his linksys router, so I essentially have a hotspot backup if my system has a problem, but in any case just writing to re-iterate what some others are reporting and that is my 8790's intergrated wireless is seeing my neighbors linksys router.
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post #14 of 21
3/19/04 at 9:26pm
Are you guys letting windows manage your wireless or are you using the Gigabyte utility?
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post #15 of 21
3/19/04 at 9:36pm
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Originally Posted by paledrifter
Are you guys letting windows manage your wireless or are you using the Gigabyte utility?
Both work fine for me - I stuck with the Gigabyte one for no real reason other than it was already there.
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post #16 of 21
3/19/04 at 9:46pm
I'm using windows to manage but just like Valkrien both are seeing the syslink. I went to the G-Ezlink utility to verify.
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post #17 of 21
4/3/04 at 5:02am
Hi ..

I just both a netgear WGT624v2 wlan router. But I cannot see any networks.

Ive already upgraded to the latest firmware: Version 4.0.4
http://kbserver.netgear.com/support_...asp?dnldID=633

Also I have the latest available driver for the gigabyte wlan card installed.

How can I verify that my internetal wlan card is not broken?

Thanks
-Mat
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post #18 of 21
4/3/04 at 7:28am
Could it be that my internal antenna is not plugged to the mini pci card?

How can I check this?

-Mat
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post #19 of 21
4/3/04 at 6:23pm
Crack open the system. I think you can get to it by removing the keyboard and silver plate under there.
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post #20 of 21
4/6/04 at 5:32am
I went to sager today and there's a hidden key shortcut.

Press Fn + F12 to enable/disable the wireless card. The status is indicated with the email light.

-Mat
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