Windows cannot configure this wireless connection

[shaminda]

When I try to check my wireless connection I get the following error message:

Windows cannot configure this wireless connection

And it tells me to see article 871122 in the Microsoft knowledge Base on Microsoft.com web site. I looked at the web site. And the web site asks me to do the following:

If your computer or your wireless network adapter did not come with its own wireless network software, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type ncpa.cpl, and then click OK.
2. Click Network Connections.
3. In Network Connections, click to select your wireless connection, and then click Change settings of this connection.
4. On the Wireless Networks tab, click to select the Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings check box.

In step four it talks about a Wireless Networks tab. I don’t see a Wireless Network tab.


To start the Wireless Zero Configuration service, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type %SystemRoot%\system32\services.msc /s, and then click OK.
2. Double-click Wireless Zero Configuration.
3. In the Startup type list, click Automatic, and then click Apply.
4. In the Service status area, click Start, and then click OK.


The Wireless Zero Configuration service is on automatic. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?

 

[linney]

The article you quote, from my reading, makes these comments which might be the prpblem, "If you want to use the Wireless Network Setup Wizard or the View Available Wireless Networks feature to configure your wireless device, see the documentation that came with your computer or with your wireless network card. Use this documentation to determine whether you can use the Wireless Zero Configuration service to configure your wireless network. Sometimes, you cannot use the Windows functionality".


Automatic Wireless Network Connections in Windows XP

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/windowsxpnetworking/a/automaticwifixp.htm

 

[gbaughma]

I deal with this all the time.

What type of laptop is it? Does it have built-in wireless?

Look for a wireless configuration utility in your start menu. Poke around there until you see something to the effect of "Let windows manage this wireless device" or "Use this tool to manage my wireless device".

Change the state of that checkbox.



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[shaminda]

It's a Dell D600 laptop and it has built in wireless

 

[allteltec]

go Start Programs look for Dell Wireless , Card Utility click that and try using the dell utility. You have to start the utility then the radio before it will work.