Hi Everyone
I wonder if you could help. Im new to the forum and am a bit of a computer thicky so any advice would be really appreciated!

I have a Linksys wireless router which has been working fine until 2 days ago. Now I am unable to connect to my wireless network. I have an inbuilt wireless adapter (Atheros AG5005G) which is showing as "Not Associated" and "No link" and the usual green bars at the bottom of my toolbar are now grey. I have a feeling this is where the problem lies in that it isnt talking to my wireless router (I'm able to get online with my old AOL modem). I've tried everything and I'm tearing my hair out as I've wasted a whole day fiddling about with my computer. If anyone has some advice I'd be really grateful!

Oh, I tried running a diagnostics test on my inbuilt adapter and it comes back as saying that the client adapter is not associated to an access point and I need to configure the radio card and set SSID and other properties. This means nothing to me! HELP!

Thanks

Hello theflashfairy,

Welcome to PCHF.

Have you tried resetting your router?

When you double click on the wireless icon in the taskbar, do you see your router listed there?

Hi ya,

Yes I've tried resetting the router and reinstalling it, but part of reinstalling it involves it connecting to the internet and it keeps saying it can't connect. I tried to confuse the computer by disabling the inbuilt adapter and using the one that came with my router but that didn't work either. It just seems as though the whole wireless network has gone caput, it just doesnt want to know. I cant understand why it changed because I hadn't changed any of the settings before it went wrong. My router is listed on the list of possible wireless connections and the signal strength is excellent, but it just keeps telling me that there is no link between my inbuilt adapter and the wireless networks. The only conclusion I can reach is that my computer cant recognise the wireless networks and isn't talking to them! Also when I bring up the list of network connections (ie modems/broadband/wireless etc) on the control panel, the Internet Gateway is always disabled and I have to keen enabling it, but even once I've enabled it, my computer still wants nothing to do with anything wireless! Does that help?!!!

Are you aware of any security enabled on the router that may be causing problems?

You can normally access your router page (from a working PC), through Internet Explorer, using the address 192.168.0.1, or 192.168.1.1. Disable any security and see if you can connect without it?

Yes its security enabled and I use 128 bit WEP security but I'll disable it and see what happens! I'm just worried that if its not secure, everyone else will use my network! I'll give it a go anyway and get back to you! Thank you for your help so far, its much appreciated!

I disabled the wireless security and reconfigured the wireless router but am still getting a message saying that an internet connection could not be detected. I don't know what else to try! Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi flash,

From both PC's, can you do the following, and paste the results back here.

- Go to Start, Run and type cmd
- From the command window, type ipconfig
- Right click on the titlebar of the command window, and go to Edit, Select All.
- Right click on the titlebar of the command window, and go to Edit, Copy
- Paste the results back here. From the PC that is not working, you will probably need to save the results to Notepad/Word, save it to disk and transfer it to the working PC.

Also, is the working PC connected via ethernet cable, or is this wireless also?