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  User Icon dgilliam

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9/30/2004 11:41:04 PM


I have two NICs. One is an internal 10/100 and the other is a wireless. All of the sudden my wireless adapter is not working. It connects to my router but it shows up as Media State Disconnected when I do an IPConfig. How do I fix this.
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  User Icon none

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1/12/2005 5:01:48 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by dgilliam:
    I have two NICs. One is an internal 10/100 and the other is a wireless. All of the sudden my wireless adapter is not working. It connects to my router but it shows up as Media State Disconnected when I do an IPConfig. How do I fix this.



Try creating a restore point, removing the wireless card from the device manager, and rebooting the computer. Windows should pick out the drivers automatically.
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  User Icon pop3

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5/13/2005 1:36:22 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by none:
      QUOTE:
      Originally Posted by dgilliam:
      I have two NICs. One is an internal 10/100 and the other is a wireless. All of the sudden my wireless adapter is not working. It connects to my router but it shows up as Media State Disconnected when I do an IPConfig. How do I fix this.



    Try creating a restore point, removing the wireless card from the device manager, and rebooting the computer. Windows should pick out the drivers automatically.



sorry but using restore point wont solve this kind`a problem 100 % alltimes so ill just like to redirect this isue tohttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/239924/ till some one makes a full report as in what he/she thinks could be the cause of this issue / im trouble shooting same thing rightnow Emoticon i have changed the value under nic properties configure/advanced to a dif. media type but it didnt work so.. when tried to recover back using the default value as before the nic stays unavailable and had to go through a new setup of os to get it back. well.. its an anoying issue Emoticon still at it Emoticon
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  User Icon john3593

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8/7/2005 9:39:22 PM


okay - I tried everything - Somehow my wireless Linksys wpc54g v2 card was causing some strange messages - (e.g. C++ device runtime error device terminated/ended error) or something like that - I could not get it to connet to my wrt54g v2 linksys router and I had the same "media disconnected" message unper ipconfig /all. I unistalled linsys software on the laptop, and failed miserably and repeatedly after reinstalling UNTIL I took out pci card, uninstalled software, THEN RESTARTED the laptop, then reinstalled software (remember - after restarting) and the reconnected pci card (BUT - I also noticed linksys software for the pci card showed "mixed mode" for connection type and gave NO other option (e.g. G-0nly) - My wireless router w@sset to G-only - so I also changed the router (in its software configuration by going to url 192.168.1.1. on the main desktop pc) to "mixed mode" to try and give the damn software no excuse to no connect between the desktop amnd wireless laptop. I think I also turned off the firewall on the router but I am not sure that change stuck or made a difference - but it might have (??) - I then pushed in the PCI card "last" and voila - connected! Good luck to everyone - nasty problem. I suspect it was the mismatch of the router being set to g-only and the card as mixed - I wouldnt have thought that was it - but maybe it was??

Also - I took windows off of the job by unchecking "let windows configure my wireless connection" (under the propeties of the connection) and I disabled my virus protection during all of the aboveso I could try to get the linksys software working solo on it

Good luck
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  User Icon lothlorien

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9/7/2005 10:22:24 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by dgilliam:
    I have two NICs. One is an internal 10/100 and the other is a wireless. All of the sudden my wireless adapter is not working. It connects to my router but it shows up as Media State Disconnected when I do an IPConfig. How do I fix this.



I was having this problem when I recently reinstalled winxp on my second computer. I solved it by going into device manager, double clicking the network card, clicking the advanced tab and disabling Bluetooth Collaboration.
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  User Icon GNet

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8/5/2006 1:46:46 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by dgilliam:
    I have two NICs. One is an internal 10/100 and the other is a wireless. All of the sudden my wireless adapter is not working. It connects to my router but it shows up as Media State Disconnected when I do an IPConfig. How do I fix this.


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Here is the scenario - Win XP Sp2, Sony system, LinkSys WRT54G Router - I got the same error as above mentioned.

Router - 1) firewalled
2) Wireless MAC filter is on

The following solution is worked for me
a) add the wireless mac - usually we get this from [C>ipconfig ] command prompt. Here in this case we can't find it as it says "Medium - Medium state disconnected". But you can find your MAC from device manager - network adapters - wirless card - right click on this and you should able to find it on one of the tabs.

The above solution worked for me in my scenario. Give a try b'coz

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Best Of Luck
Sudheer
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  User Icon ragulrocks_82

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8/7/2006 12:36:29 PM


yes this option helps most of my clients
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  User Icon blix88

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12/14/2006 2:27:14 AM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by GNet:
      QUOTE:
      Originally Posted by dgilliam:
      I have two NICs. One is an internal 10/100 and the other is a wireless. All of the sudden my wireless adapter is not working. It connects to my router but it shows up as Media State Disconnected when I do an IPConfig. How do I fix this.


    ----------------------------------------
    Here is the scenario - Win XP Sp2, Sony system, LinkSys WRT54G Router - I got the same error as above mentioned.

    Router - 1) firewalled
    2) Wireless MAC filter is on

    The following solution is worked for me
    a) add the wireless mac - usually we get this from [C>ipconfig ] command prompt. Here in this case we can't find it as it says "Medium - Medium state disconnected". But you can find your MAC from device manager - network adapters - wirless card - right click on this and you should able to find it on one of the tabs.

    The above solution worked for me in my scenario. Give a try b'coz




how do i add a wireless mac?
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  User Icon Halcyon

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4/13/2007 1:29:08 AM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by blix88:
      QUOTE:
      Originally Posted by GNet:
        QUOTE:
        Originally Posted by dgilliam:
        I have two NICs. One is an internal 10/100 and the other is a wireless. All of the sudden my wireless adapter is not working. It connects to my router but it shows up as Media State Disconnected when I do an IPConfig. How do I fix this.


      ----------------------------------------
      Here is the scenario - Win XP Sp2, Sony system, LinkSys WRT54G Router - I got the same error as above mentioned.

      Router - 1) firewalled
      2) Wireless MAC filter is on

      The following solution is worked for me
      a) add the wireless mac - usually we get this from [C>ipconfig ] command prompt. Here in this case we can't find it as it says "Medium - Medium state disconnected". But you can find your MAC from device manager - network adapters - wirless card - right click on this and you should able to find it on one of the tabs.

      The above solution worked for me in my scenario. Give a try b'coz




    how do i add a wireless mac?




To add a wireless MAC, (physical address), you open a web browser and type in the address bar the default gateway of your router (this is usually 192.168.0.1; check cmd-->ipconfig to be sure). It should take you to a page where you see a picture of your router and some options. You will probabley want "Advanced Options." Then click, if necessary, "Begin Advanced Setup / Configuration." On the left side is a list of options. Choose blah blah blah MAC ADDRESS, and then it will ask if you want to enable MAC List exceptions. Enable it. Then choose "Allow List," and type in the mac address as exampled,( e.g. 00-hf-57-34-7i-88). Hit ok, and do Save And Restart to restart router afresh with these new settings. I am using an ACTIONTEC router, but this should be the general course for router MAC adress fixes.

Goodluck.

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  User Icon J-Haze

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5/19/2007 2:46:20 PM


Help! -

Network: NetGear WPN824v2 Wireless Router

I got the same error as above mentioned.
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  User Icon DiscoJava

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6/29/2007 11:09:30 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by J-Haze:
    Help! -

    Network: NetGear WPN824v2 Wireless Router

    I got the same error as above mentioned.



I have the same Wireless Router you have the NetGear WPN842. When you are setting up the Access List ensure you don't have the 'Turn Access Control On' checked without having detected the Wireless card. Otherwise, it will never allow access Wireless Cards. What I did was deselect this Turn Access Control On, and refresh to get the wireless card. Once it shows, then select Turn Access Control On and select the Wireless Card in the list. That worked for me.

TCap
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