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My17x and the WIFI

post #1 of 4
7/6/10 at 2:54am
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Hello
I am hoping that someone can shine some light on this for me
I was using the notebook yesterday with no problem, on line doing some web designs and everything worked fine.
Today I went to get online and my WiFI indicator has red X on it

and no matter what I do I cant get it to work
I have reinstalled the Broadcom drivers, reinstalled the chipset drivers, checked under services to make sure that nothing is turned off by accident, and I can not find anything unnormal
If anyone could suggest anything that would be great
I am running Win7 64bit with 8 gig of ram etc

I will say this, couple of times I got it to come up, where you see the yellow star on it, and it did see the network, but when I tried to connect to it, it told me that it could not make the connection at this time, or something close to it.

I know the wifi works, I am on my other notebook as I am typing this, and there are no issues with it

Please, any suggestions will be welcome

Thank you
Mark

P.S. I noticed that if I connect a regular Cat5 into it, the WIFI comes to life as well, and it connects
The moment I disconnect the cable the wifi stops working.
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post #2 of 4
7/6/10 at 11:34am
This is a known (old) issue, from what I remember you had to go into device manager and into the properties of your wired nic, not the wifi card and disable any kind of power saving mode.
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post #3 of 4
7/6/10 at 1:23pm
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as always you guys come through, thank you kindly for the hint
it worked.
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post #4 of 4
7/6/10 at 2:11pm
Also, make sure that the wi-fi catcher switch on the computer is on, otherwise, the wireless nic will show active but still won't pick anything up.

Yes, seen that happening.
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