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wifi adapter won't enable?
(W7 home premium)
My friend has bought a new wifi adapter - I don't think it will be any better than her present one, but never mind that for now. It's an Edimax nano, basically a USB plug with a very little extra on it. I plugged it in, and when Windows for some reason couldn't load a driver, I used the mini-CD, and after pointing the OS at the right folder thereon, a driver loaded and seems to work. On the screen in control panel (networks or something like that) that shows two things - the ethernet cable and the wifi adapter - it shows as something like wireless network 7, and disabled. If I right-click, a dropdown appears which includes Enable, so I click on that; a small window opens saying Enabling, then Enabled, then disappears - but the main one-of-two display (the other being the ethernet cable) still shows it as Disabled. No wifi networks are shown. If I plug back in the old wifi dongle, it shows on that screen as two things, numbered 5 and 6, and one of them (I forget which) shows the name of the SSID where the other one shows as Disabled, and indeed we have an internet connection. If I plug _both_ in, they show up as 5, 6, and 7, with one of 5 and 6 showing the SSID and providing a connection, the other (new one) showing as 7 and Disabled - in other words, the two wifi adapters seem to be completely independent of whether the other one is plugged in or not - one appearing as 5 and 6 and giving us a connection, one appearing as 7 and not being enable-able. I've tried safe mode (with networking), snoozing ZoneAlarm's firewall and other function for five minutes, and turning off Panda, all to no avail - ditto changing some service someone suggested from Manual to automatic start, and starting it (one that begins with "WLAN ..."). We had a garbled reply from Edimax that suggested the firewall offing, and (really just by copying an email between two other users) making sure the service was enabled. In summary: I _think_ the new wifi adapter has a driver the OS is happy with, but it isn't seeing any networks, probably because it can't be changed from Disabled, though a popup says "Enabling ... Enabled". -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. -Franklin P. Jones |
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