Aspire 5101 XP Wireless Problem

Hi guys, I seem to be having a bit of difficulty with my laptop. Ive just done a clean install of Windows XP Pro using the drivers from the Acer website. After installing the wireless adapter I connected to the internet easily, three networks were discovered and I connected to my one. Internet was working perfectly fine untill I rebooted. Now everytime Windows starts up it takes ages to load the wireless icon in the taskbar even though everything else loaded a while back. All it does now is try to retrieve an IP address but it never gets any further than that. If I disconnect the connection it says wireless networks found but if i click to view the networks there isnt anything there.

Anyone got any ideas to why this is happening, everything seemed fine untill I rebooted and I havent touched any other settings? Its like it know the network is there but it cant connect and I know its not the router because the laptop isnt showing any other networks which it normally does.

 

Come on guys, I'm pulling my hair out here, surely someone can help me?

 

Maybe DHCP is disabled on one of the computers?

Try to specify IP and gateway manualy.

 

Not quite sure how to do that, I dont really understand wireless settings and stuff. Could you explain further please?

 

are you useing wpa on network?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...4D-E7C1-48D6-95EE-1459234F4483&displaylang=en

install it seem make diffrance even not useing wpa

 

there is to different wireless drivers which did you install? try installing the other one. this kinda thing happened to me with my 3050 i installed other driver and it works fine now. also wpa setting will do this kinda of thing happened on my macbook pro. try switching to wpa2 or wep.

 

Ok, I've tried all the suggestions so far but no luck still. I tried both drivers on the acer site, installed the microsoft hotfix, and changed to WEP but nothing made a difference.

I just think its weird how the adapter picks up networks but you cant see or connect to them. I think i may have to go buy one of those PCMIA wireless cards for it.

 

have you rebooted the router?
mine does this from time to time and all i do is unplug router from mains wait 30sec's and all is well

 

I have rebooted the router a few times now but i know this is not where the problem is coming from. There are two other strong wireless signals by me and the laptop is not displaying any of them. My other laptop running Vista and my three other desktop computers all have internet access and are working perfectly.

Yet again I spent all night googling for answers but the only thing I can see is that its not just me with the problem but also no one can help sort the problem out.

 

im using the the broadcom software...when i used the windows software i had to keep restarting windows zero configuration in services....i had to make a shortcut it was getting that bad with three SSIDs near me. and my laptop trying to connect to all three(nightmare).

 

I had the (same) problem with my acer 5610,But the problem was that while
it was saying that I was connected,I had 2 of the same networks in my list
and one was not completely set up,the other one was,guess which one I was
on.So when I clicked on the correct one I had no-o-o-o more problems
even thuogh the wrong one showed that I was connected and full signal too.
so look in your network list and click on each one until it works,but first look
at the bottom right hand corner and click on the 2 little computers and when
the list comes up,click on the network to turn it on and just go down the list.
hope this helps