Can you offer some suggestionsLast weekend I installed win 7 as part of a dual boot system. Connecting to the Internet by wire works fine, however connecting through the wireless is not working. Any suggestions? Going back to XP Pro wireless works great! Here are my notebook and wireless card specs:MSI GX620 sold as a PowerPro 15:3 Notebook from powernotebooks.comIntel Wireless WiFi Link 5300 802.11AGN - WiMax ReadyBuilt in Ethernet 10/100/1000BaseT Network ---Works good According to the little wireless icon the connection is made however, the little icon bars are not green and it wont open up a web page (any) using the wireless connection. Using a hard wired connection I can access the internet. This copy of windows 7 is dual booted on my hard drive along with XP pro. When I switch to XP the wireless connection works like a champ! I deleted the connection and then tried again. Still no wireless. I download a driver from Intel for the Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300 802.11AGN card. Still no luck, I uninstalled the intel driver and restarted and let windows seven load one of its drives..it loaded the same driver I disconnected the firewall stuff and still no luck. I should also say that I'm using a netgear wireless cable modem (CG814wg) Any recommendations

In my experience,my wireless security settings did not carry from the previous OS to Win7, so you may have to go through that process again. (SSID, WEP/WPA, etc...) in the Win7 configuration. If you search for wireless networks, does it find anything at all ?

1. If you have a third-party firewall, e.g. ZoneAlarm, uninstall it. 2. Remove the existing connection: Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Network and Sharing Center > Manage Wireless Networks (in the left pane) and right-click the one you want to Remove. 3. Create a new connection: Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Network and Sharing Center > Set up a new connection or network > Manually Connect to a Wireless Network > Next. Type in the Network Name (SSID), select Security Type and type in the key. You may also want to tick Start this connection automatically and Connect even if the network is not > Next.

When I search for wireless networks I find the whole neighborhood including mine.

I did some more trouble shooting today at Lunch while visiting starbucks: At starbucks IFired up win7 and accessed the wireless tmoble site without any problems. I surfed the starbucks site learned all about coffee and then went to the ATT comercial link and learned all about ATT. So.........Would this mean that my problem is with my netgear routor only??? Its a netgear CG814wg. I went to the neatgear website but was unable to locate a vist driver or any other type driver for this cable modem. Any suggestions?

Not necessarily. (Most wireless routers aren't much more than radio transceivers, with some configuration options. As such, you wouldn't need mfr-specific drivers for the router... just drivers for your specific card, to talk back and forth with the router. Since you connected at Starbucks using win7, that's a good indication that your drivers are sufficient.)Starbucks has no security at all (by design) on their wifi, so that folks **can** come in, power up, and surf.My guess is that your netgear has some level of security/handshaking.Boot into XP, and then take a look at the properties of your home wifi connection. Look for nomenclature (and related settings or values) such as:SSIDWEPWPA, WPA2passwordetc. Also, check to see if you have a static IP, or just DHCP assigned. Copy down any values and/or settings, and enter these into the equivalent places in the Win7 OS wireless setup.Your netgear may be set to not 'broadcast' it's SSID, so also look in XP for whether there is a checkmark next to parameters such as "Always connect to this network'. and any other such paramters, and, again, duplkicate these over on the Win7 side.

There were a bunch of us (in a different forum)that had one problem with windows 7. That was while using a wireless router ( in our case it was the linksys WRT54G), everytime win7 was turned on it would knock of the routers wireless function.This was the case if you had Win 7 hardwired in. The wireless could be regain by a reboot of the router, but that was annoying as hell. The answer was to disable (or uncheck) ip v6 from network properties. This worked for my and many more network .So my question then becomes...if ip v6 is wreaking havoc with my router, then how many other network devices are having trouble with it?good luck

You may have your Win7 joined to a Homegroup. That requires IPv6, and turing it off maybe whatlet you see the wireless.Rating posts helps other users Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

Go into your network setting and uncheck IPV6.