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by pavladisko

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Hi. I am begging for help with my friend's ASUS A3H laptop. His wireless card is strangely not deteting any networks at all. Problem is intermittent, once in an hour it detects someone else's distant network but not mine.There are at least five networks around and I have previously connected to my AP. I would prefer not to reinstall win...
What i've tried so far. After each step i have tried to detect networks.My AP is 2 meters away from laptop.
Booted from linux live cd, wifi detects and connects just fine. Therefore I assume wifi card works.
In windows xp home SP3 (fully patched)
1.Unninstalled asus 802.11g card in device manager.reboot. Reinstalled,
2 updated driver to version 4.100.15.5.
3.installed asus control center
4.netsh winsock reset catalog
5.netsh int ip reset reset.log
6.sfc.exe /scannow
7.run various antivirus scans, all clean
8.Tried safe mode, no luck
I am running out of ideas. Could anyone advise please?

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by ---tk---

Has it always been this way? Or did the problem just come about?

Also, have you tried switching between which driver controlls the card... With in most drivers you can say let windows control the device or have the propritary driver control the device. I would try switching between the two and see if that helps any....

by pavladisko

Thanks for your reply. Well, it has been fine for a long time since he bought the laptop.First the problem occurred intermittently after about a year, but now (laptop is about 2 years old) wifi only works intermittently.
I ve tried both windows built in driver and driver supplied by asus. Same result. Tried new and also old drivers, still wifi doesn't detect anything most of the time.....

by oh smeg

What software is loaded. The Hardware Driver/Software may be in conflict with the System Makers WiFi Network Control Application.

If you are using the Intel WiFi Networking you have to disable it to allow the System supplied WiFi Networking to run the device with Windows.

Col

by pavladisko

Hi, thank for your reply. Well, originaly, only windows drivers were used, all additional (Asus wirelles utility) was removed when laptop was brand new as it make it easier for me to support it over the phone... Anyway I have loaded asus software back, and it didn't make any difference at all ......
To keep the laptop usable, I provided friend with usb wireless card. That works fine and I had to resign....for the first time in my life...

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