Inspiron 1520 Not Connecting To Wireless

I got my laptop a few hours ago and it would be great, but I cannot connect to the internet and I have been at it for a couple hours. It's too annoying. I made mention of this in another thread but want to make a new thread as my problem can get lost in the other thread.

I cannot connect to the wireless network. I have tried going to WEP/WPA, etc. I have an xps m1330 that works more or less. Even if it gives trouble, I can get it connected after a while. The 1520 I have connected when I first tried it...then dropped connection. Now, I am lucky if the thing connects and it WILL drop the connection no matter what. I am also in need of it connecting because I need to drag a large file to the vista laptop and when it connects, I do it, wirelessly through the network, but it drops and won't finish. I found this but do not know if it will work. I am downloading it to find out. Any help will be appreciated, I just wanna get online

 

Try going to device manager and unistalling your wireless card driver. Then do a system restore.
If the above doesn't work, try a system restore without unistalling it.
Also, try updating the driver if the above don't work.

If none of those don't work, just try calling dell...

 

Uninstalling does nothing, which is weird. I do it and it says it was installed and ready to use.

How do I do system restore exactly?

 

Go to Start, then on the search bar, type in "system restore" then when it comes up click on it. After that, just follow the options and restore it to the date of your liking.

 

I did it and I was able to connect...but it still dropped and went to saying Acces is Local only and the file I am pulling from the XP machine wirelessly is stuck. Nobody else got this problem? 1520 people, you connecting wirelessly no problem?

 

samureye

i think i know what your problem is....I had the same problem too...and then I realized it was my mistake (not the computer's). I was accidentally trying to connect to an ad-hoc network, and not a router. Vista would give me the same message and the internet would not work. Make sure you are connecting to a router....it worked fine for me after I figured out to connect to the router (some idiot in my dorm made the ad-hoc have the same exact name as the router...)....

 

Actually I think the problem seems to be that I was trying to get a 4GB file wirelessly on another PC with sharing folders. That seemed to break it.