It seems my laptop cannot find a wireless network in my own home. It’s a craptop running XP. I have one other laptop (the wife’s) which can find my network fine, and a desktop which is landlined into the router (and modem).
My craptop tells me that it “No wireless networks were found in range.” and yet, my wife’s machine nigh on 9 inches away can pull up four or five from the neighborhood.
I did notice the other day when I booted up the computer that it asked me for the WEP key to my local network. I cancelled out of that screen, and then reboot the machine, and now this. . .
Any thoughts? I’ve tried to ‘repair’ the connection, tried disabling/enabling the connection, but all to no avail. Anyone have any suggestions where I can start looking?
Not sure if this will apply, or if this is what you meant when you said you’d tried disabling/enabling, but my Vaio has a little switch along the left side that turns wireless on and off. It is really easy to hit accidentally and took me a while to figure out the first time.
If it happens again, log in to your router and change the channel it’s operating on. Most people leave their routers at the default settings, which can, particularly with like brands of routers, cause crosstalk, interfering with your NIC’s ability to find your router’s signal amid the noise of other routers using the same channel. Changing the channel to a less frequently used one can often solve the problem, assuming you found a channel that is relatively free of chatter.