Windows 7 wireless - strange effect
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the standard Dell 1395 WLan card.It works via wireless perfectly with Vista (I am submitting this form on that setup)I have installed Windows 7 RC on the same computer.The wireless network finds all of my neigbours' access points but does not list mine - located in the same room! Manually setting up the connection to my K-Corp KLG-575 router still fails toconnect.I have not seen this effect before - clearly the WLan adapter is being detected and the driver works.I have been through the router settings again and again to see if anything is 'hiding' the wireless but nothing appears to be amiss here. I have switched between WEP, open, WPA etc. and have seen no difference.Am I missing something really obvious here?
June 20th, 2009 7:43pm

Can you uninstall the driver from device manager and let Windows reinstall it?
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June 20th, 2009 8:11pm

Thanks for the swift reply Adam...However, I think I've solved the issue.By turning off the 'Super-G' mode in the router and then using no security at all, my wireless network now appears in the list. BUT - I have since re-enabled the WEP security as before and maintained the list of MAC addresses to allow access and it all continues to work as if there had never been a problem. I'd never used the 'Super-G' mode in the past - perhaps the new driver knows something about it that the Vista onedoesn't.Another 6 hours chalked down to 'practice'Problem solved.
June 20th, 2009 9:13pm

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