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    OMG! Please help - Vostro 1500 wireless not working

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ukclaret, Mar 27, 2008.

  1. ukclaret

    ukclaret Notebook Geek

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    Hello

    Looking for some expert here as I am afraid my wireless adaptor in my Vostro 1500 has been disabled somehow.

    Basically, i was messing with services.msc last night and when i re-booted i got the following message:

    'You wi-fi catcher band configuration is not compatible with your WLAN card band configuration. Select yes to change to change your wi-fi catcher band configuration or no to keep your current configuration'

    No matter if I say yes or no my wireless adaptor will not pick anything up. I have reversed what i changed in services.msc but still no joy.

    Does anyone know the particular service I may have changed in services.msc or shed any light onto how I can resolve this.

    Really grateful for any help

    Thanks
     
    ukclaret, Mar 27, 2008
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  2. LoneWolf15

    LoneWolf15 The Chairman

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    Did you disable the Wireless Zero Configuration service when you were in services.msc? That might cause you some issues. Make sure it is set to Automatic.
     
    LoneWolf15, Mar 27, 2008
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  3. ukclaret

    ukclaret Notebook Geek

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    Hello

    The wireless zero configuration doesn't exist in my Vista services but I had set 'Wired AutoConfig' and 'WLAN AutoConfig' to manual instead of automatic.

    All ok now cheers
     
    ukclaret, Mar 27, 2008
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