I have spent the last 4 days trying to get my WiFi to connect to the Internet and am ready to throw the computer and all its additional equipment out of the window!
Amongst a collection of other laptops and a desktop, running different systems - Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 - I have an old Acer Aspire 3000, running Windows XP Pro SP3. I use it mainly for midi file work and as a host for Visual Studio 2005 which I keep for maintenance of some programs, written many years ago, but still in use by some of my friends and for which I require frequent searches on the Internet. Just recently, for no apparent reason, the WiFi on this laptop suddenly stopped working. I have been using an Edimax EW-7318Usg wireless adapter, which has never given any trouble in the past, to connect with my home network through a router/modem supplied by my ISP.
Since every other computer, iPhone, iPad and Kindle connects to the same network and works perfectly, I have to assume that there is no problem with that router. Also, the problem laptop connects perfectly via the ethernet cable. It just won't work on WiFi alone!
I have checked my wireless connections setup, including TCP/IP, and can find no problem devices in Device manager.
I have searched for solutions on the internet and tried everything I can find - I have scanned my hard disk with Panda Antivirus; have downloaded and run MalwareBytes; I have tried changing the router channel; I have tried setting the ipconfig values. Nothing makes any difference!
When I attach the wireless adapter there is usually a message telling me the connection has "limited or no internet access". At this point ipconfig /all shows the default values for the configuration.
If I try repairing the connection, I am told that the process cannot continue for one reason or another, though, on occasion, it connects when I close the message box. However, the adapter still shows "acquiring IP Address" and hangs there. Here ipconfig /all shows the correct configuration.
In both situations, the only ipaddress I can ping is the host PC - the problem one! Every other IP, whether in numerical form such as 192.168.1.1 (the router) or alphabetical form such as google.com, returns either a "timeout" or a "cannot find" message and, of course, I cannot connect to the internet.
I have tried clearing the ipconfig (I've forgotten the command!) and followed it with ipconfig /renew, but that won't work. I have repaired winsock using Microsoft's instructions and I have become "war-weary" trying to make sense of the whole thing.
I am trying not to have to re-install Windows XP and the associated updating of all programs, so as a last resort, I tried (probably unsuccessfully) to uninstall Edimax. In the end, after using Add and Remove to clear as much as possible, I just deleted the complete folder from Program Files. Then I installed the software for an old Belkin Wireless USB Adapter which I had lying around and tried it. The outcome was exactly the same! The Belkin software has one advantage however - it allows the user to opt to control the adapter through Windows, though I still could not make it work. I just don't know enough to solve this one.
Any ideas, anyone?
BarrieC
St1ckM4n
Amongst a collection of other laptops and a desktop, running different systems - Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 - I have an old Acer Aspire 3000, running Windows XP Pro SP3. I use it mainly for midi file work and as a host for Visual Studio 2005 which I keep for maintenance of some programs, written many years ago, but still in use by some of my friends and for which I require frequent searches on the Internet. Just recently, for no apparent reason, the WiFi on this laptop suddenly stopped working. I have been using an Edimax EW-7318Usg wireless adapter, which has never given any trouble in the past, to connect with my home network through a router/modem supplied by my ISP.
Since every other computer, iPhone, iPad and Kindle connects to the same network and works perfectly, I have to assume that there is no problem with that router. Also, the problem laptop connects perfectly via the ethernet cable. It just won't work on WiFi alone!
I have checked my wireless connections setup, including TCP/IP, and can find no problem devices in Device manager.
I have searched for solutions on the internet and tried everything I can find - I have scanned my hard disk with Panda Antivirus; have downloaded and run MalwareBytes; I have tried changing the router channel; I have tried setting the ipconfig values. Nothing makes any difference!
When I attach the wireless adapter there is usually a message telling me the connection has "limited or no internet access". At this point ipconfig /all shows the default values for the configuration.
If I try repairing the connection, I am told that the process cannot continue for one reason or another, though, on occasion, it connects when I close the message box. However, the adapter still shows "acquiring IP Address" and hangs there. Here ipconfig /all shows the correct configuration.
In both situations, the only ipaddress I can ping is the host PC - the problem one! Every other IP, whether in numerical form such as 192.168.1.1 (the router) or alphabetical form such as google.com, returns either a "timeout" or a "cannot find" message and, of course, I cannot connect to the internet.
I have tried clearing the ipconfig (I've forgotten the command!) and followed it with ipconfig /renew, but that won't work. I have repaired winsock using Microsoft's instructions and I have become "war-weary" trying to make sense of the whole thing.
I am trying not to have to re-install Windows XP and the associated updating of all programs, so as a last resort, I tried (probably unsuccessfully) to uninstall Edimax. In the end, after using Add and Remove to clear as much as possible, I just deleted the complete folder from Program Files. Then I installed the software for an old Belkin Wireless USB Adapter which I had lying around and tried it. The outcome was exactly the same! The Belkin software has one advantage however - it allows the user to opt to control the adapter through Windows, though I still could not make it work. I just don't know enough to solve this one.
Any ideas, anyone?
BarrieC
St1ckM4n