wireless problem "Media State : Media Disconnected"

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Hey all, sorry if this has been answered in the past but I am tired and fed up with searching for the answer (even if there is one to be found).
I have a Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop /w 2gb of ram and I had a perfectly working DLink DWL-G650 cardbus nic in it. I finally got around to setting up my xbox360 on the network and flashed my router (DLink DGL-4300), I had 2 PCs and the laptop on the wireless segment of the lan. One PC still connects fine to the router, the other PC doesnt connect (I have not looked at this machine yet) and the laptop sporadically connects then immediatly disconnects. IPCONFIG says "Media State : Media Disconnected", but the card shows up as operating normally in device manager.
It was set to static IP when it was working, I have tried DHCP, uninstalling/ reinstalling card, renaming SSID, removing all encryption, every combination of encryption available in the router...sigh I don't know what to do with it. Of course the wired connection works fine (wired FTW!) but seeing as its a laptop, wireless would be pretty nice to have working on it.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks guys!
 
I don't think so because all of the wired connections work fine and one of the other wireless clients works fine. Now if the wireless didnt work at all on any clients I would flash back to previous firmware. I couln't find much info on this issue and what I did find I tried everything suggested :/ Was hoping we had a wireless network guru among us :) Do we?
I know a wired card can throw the same error with no cable pluged into it..not always but it does sometimes...half the things I found so far say software, the other half say config...its really begining to anger me :(
 
Are you able to search for wireless networks? Does the network appear in the list of available networks? It should look something like this:

 
For a start reset the router to default settings.There should be a small hole behind the router,somewhere near the switch ports.Reset it by pressing with a pencil for some amount of time (check the router manual on how to do it exactly).

With the default settings,configure the router for internet access.But keep security disabled for now i.e encryption WEP/WPA,disable it for now.

Check whether the client machine(s) can connect to the router without any issue.

@Chaos

Tell me where you stay dude,I love war driving :-P
 
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digen said:
@Chaos
Tell me where you stay dude,I love war driving :-P
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Haha I've intentionally kept the network unsecured so that if some poor soul needs an internet connection for a while, he's free to use my connection :P. Doesn't cost me anything anyway lol. WEP is useless anyway :P
 
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Hmmm...I keep a lot of shares on my machines so have to live with whatever little securty WEP + Mac authentication provides me....

It's definitley better than having no protection coz no guy would put a concerted effort to crack my WEP and spoof my Mac when there are more gullible 0 protection networks available
 
Eh... if you are talking about the security of the network, all my computers are behind a firewall(a linux box) running IPSec. I'm paranoid about security and WEP does little to protect anyone.
 
Correct me if i am worong, but we are talkin bout ur home network where ur wireless router is after the firewall, what's stopping some lurker from logging into ur network thru this crack....I mean isn't this akin to putting wrought iron padlocks on ur door and then leaving ur windows (The physical one ;) ) open?

On a side note, though wep and MAC address filtering are not very strong layer of protection, but nevertheless, if I, a lurker run a scan, and see 5 networks of which 3 have no wep, i might as well log into them and while am it, I'll also run a quick sharescan to see if i can get some juicy stuff from there...
 
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Correct me if i am worong, but we are talkin bout ur home network where ur wireless router is after the firewall, what's stopping some lurker from logging into ur network thru this crack....I mean isn't this akin to putting wrought iron padlocks on ur door and then leaving ur windows (The physical one ;) ) open?

On a side note, though wep and MAC address filtering are not very strong layer of protection, but nevertheless, if I, a lurker run a scan, and see 5 networks of which 3 have no wep, i might as well log into them and while am it, I'll also run a quick sharescan to see if i can get some juicy stuff from there...
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Hm... in a way its true... big deal anyway... I put up WPA since morning :D
 
Although this is going OT,let me contribute..lol

To be honest any kind of encryption(WEP) is better than no security at all.I admit WEP is easy to crack,but it aint that easy as it sounds on paper.You need to capture a certain amount of packets(IV) to have a go at it.

Anyways at home i've WPA,mac address filtering with SSID disabled.
 
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