Asus G50 wireless not working

Hi,

After re-installing with the "Recovery DVD", I cannot use the wireless aadapter.
The wireless console shows "off" all the time no matter what I do.
The wireless button is on "on" and the device is working properly.

What am I missing?

 

Which wireless card do you have? Did you get your G50 from Best Buy or a reseller?

 

There are 3 things.

The swich in the front is a hardware level off swich it needs to be on.

The driver for it on the drivers disk, after a system restore no drivers are installed so you have to do it manually with the disk.

The last should be optional but if your having problems you may want to install it and thats the wireless control console.

 

I have a similar issue. I purchased my G50V-A2 from a reseller. I installed Vista Ultimate from retail media, the Intel drivers from the G50 driver disk and the wireless control console (though I tried with and without the last step). The hardware switch is "on".

Vista then recognizes the WiFi networks on my street, including my own, when it lists the available WiFi networks. When I select my network (Linksys WRV54G), it attempts to connect, but isn't successful (it tries for 30 seconds then suggests I review the event log or connect to another network - nothing interesting I could find in the event log). Other laptops in my house connect without an issue. Interestingly, I tried connecting to one neighbor's network, and it did prompt me for the WEP key. Yet another neighbor's network behaved the same as mine.

Can anyone recommend further troubleshooting steps?

 

I had similar issues after a reinstall, made sure I had installed ALL the drivers for the NIC/Wireless.

My network does not broadcast, so I had to manually set it up. Set it up, proper protocol and keytype, proper password, and it still wouldn't connect, even though it "successfully added" my network. Made sure to check for the network to try to connect even if not broadcasting and to connect automatically. Restarted... and it finally connected on it's own.

The other problem that happens, and this is *common* isn't a problem with the wireless card, but a problem with the wireless router. About once a month or two, I have to disconnect the power from my router and let it restart because, even though the wired connection is working fine, the wireless is suddenly unable to connect (even if it can be "found"). I've had this issue with the Xbox360, iPhone, and both of my laptops... so this last time, it wasn't the network, it was just the router (Linksys, btw).

 

I had to manually set up my network at home too, as my network does not broadcast its ID, it sometimes picked up "unknown network" and then could connect to it and enter the information, but the best thing to do was set it up manually when it did not see it and it connected just fine and has a full signal.

 

My wireless seems to have a problem where I disconnect if I download something for too long.

 

Good news - I have wireless networking up and running.

I upgraded my Linksys WRV54G to the latest firmware - that by itself didn't resolve my issue. I then changed the wireless security protocol from WEP to WPA-TKIP - presto, I was on the network again.

Actually, "presto" isn't the best description, as I understand from Intel ( http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/4965agn/sb/cs-025643.htm) that TKIP will limit my throughput to to 802.11g - though since my router doesn't support 802.11n, this isn't a real issue for me.

HTH, Ken