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    Did I break it? Help!!

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by TheHighlightGuy, Apr 3, 2013.

  1. TheHighlightGuy

    TheHighlightGuy Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, I need all the help I can get on this one...
    I replaced my screen with an FHD screen and replaced my killer 1103 card with an Intel ultimate 6300 the other night, but now my WiFi won't work :(
    I have swapped the killer and Intel a few times, installing drivers, getting rid of the others, seeing if anything will work, but nope, I can't connect anywhere. I can see both cards in the Device Manager and the network adapters in the control panel, but neither of them are picking up any WiFi signals.

    Help?
     
  2. batfinks

    batfinks Notebook Consultant

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    ok as you are swapping wireless card with each other the chances are you mite of corrupted the winsocks, did it myself when I swapped out my own wireless card. not to mention everytime to uninstall/reinstall the wireless card it adds a whole new settings on top of the older settings. if you go and check within the network properties for the wireless card you will see if will be numbered "wireless adapter xxx" x = number of times its been uninstalled/installed. best resetting all wireless settings and run a winsock fix and see if it resolves the issue.
     
  3. TheHighlightGuy

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    Yeah, I was on #5 for my killer card. How do I go about the winsock fix?
    thank you so much!

    Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
     
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    Well pretty simple,

    cmd:
    netsh int ip reset C:\netsh.log.txt
    netsh winsock reset

    or run the FixIt from MS from here: How to reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

    or better yet, reset the whole shlabang (remove the logfile from the rest if you want, may actually be required. I'm lazy). Put the following in a batch file and run it.

    netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=highlyrestricted
    netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal disabled
    netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
    netsh winsock reset all
    netsh int 6to4 reset all
    netsh int ipv4 reset all
    netsh int ipv6 reset all
    netsh int httpstunnel reset all
    netsh int isatap reset all
    netsh int portproxy reset all
    netsh int tcp reset all
    netsh int teredo reset all
     
  5. TheHighlightGuy

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    Did the batch and the first cmd command and still nothing...
    It still shows up, just no signals can be found :( I ran the diagnostic that comes with the Intel card (i have that one in now) and it fails the hardware test with the error: "Wireless Hardware is not bound to transport driver."

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    I ran each individually and I wasn't able to reset teredo, isatap, 6to4. That's not an option.

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  7. batfinks

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    check your router settings. and sometimes the winsock fix needs doing more than once.
     
  8. TheHighlightGuy

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    I've run it half a dozen times...literally.
    It's nothing to do with the router, I live in an apt complex with dozens of networks that I can usually see and not one is popping up on my end

    Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

    EDIT: alright I went to manually connect to a wireless network and this is what I got:
    [​IMG]
     
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    [​IMG]
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    Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

    EDIT: I just went to the properties of the Intel card and removed bandwidth control (leftover from killer card despite running killer cleaner) and this came up:
    [​IMG]
     
  10. batfinks

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    I think its down to a tcp/ip winsock corruption, with every uninstall/reinstall it adds a new set of settings on top of the older settings and I think its just corrupted the entire ip stack hence why you are seeing #5 next to the wireless adapter. usually a repair followed by a reboot resolves the issue. I guess you are unable to connect via Ethernet cable to check to see if you can connect to the internet that way as a test ?

    btw this may sound stupid and I do apologies but you have connected the antenna's to the wireless card and connected them correctly ?
     
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    That was the problem!! Thank you so much for your help, +rep to both of you!
    It turns out the killer cleaner didn't get rid of the QoS Packet Scheduler and the Qualcomm Bandwidth Control. Once I got rid of those and ran that bash script, restarted my computer, it connected no problem :D

    I was on the beta version of the killer drivers, so maybe that's why the killer cleaner didn't remove those components?
     
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    good to know its all sorted now. :D
     
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    He should still be able to connect and authenticate but have issues with getting addressing and routing if it was just the IP stack. I just checked my M15x and while im running W8 Ent, if I disable via the touchpad my WiFi. The device is not disabled and appears to be working although picks up NO wireless networks until I touch it again.

    So back to the basics: touch your WiFi button right above the pause/insert keys on your notebook. Are you able to at least see broadcasting networks? If not, boot up a live distro (linux mint, ubuntu, anything, most current kernels will have support built-in for the intel WiFi). I doubt you made a bios change to wireless from your posts :)


    EDIT: Disregard the above. Just noticed the responses while I typed this. Glad you got it working, awesome man :) Also CURSE the Killer! I will oneday try their side of the pie.