"Configuration-Free", My Ass
Sep. 20th, 2004 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_tectonicPicked up a wireless router today for the wireless laptop Jerry bought with hooray grant money.
I was expecting to write a post about how I really ought to be less hardware-phobic, because there are so many American households that have computers now, and most of the products are designed to be used by people less tech-savvy then myself. And getting it all hooked up to talk to the desktop windows box and all that stuff was, in fact, quite painless.
But then I tried to get the laptop to talk to the wireless network.
It sees the network. It looks for the signal and is perefectly happy to connect to it and tell you the signal strength and all that kind of thing.
It just refuses to actually *use* the network in any way.
Have I mentioned recently how much I hate Windows XP? With the white-hot passion of a thousand suns, as they say; that's how much.
I was expecting to write a post about how I really ought to be less hardware-phobic, because there are so many American households that have computers now, and most of the products are designed to be used by people less tech-savvy then myself. And getting it all hooked up to talk to the desktop windows box and all that stuff was, in fact, quite painless.
But then I tried to get the laptop to talk to the wireless network.
It sees the network. It looks for the signal and is perefectly happy to connect to it and tell you the signal strength and all that kind of thing.
It just refuses to actually *use* the network in any way.
Have I mentioned recently how much I hate Windows XP? With the white-hot passion of a thousand suns, as they say; that's how much.
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Date: 2004-09-21 09:08 am (UTC)Technopobic indeed! Why the very idea!
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Date: 2004-09-21 12:09 pm (UTC)I ain't technophobic; I just don't like fiddling with the hardware...
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Date: 2004-09-21 07:34 pm (UTC)XP is going to make my brain explode...
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Date: 2004-09-21 08:34 pm (UTC)Re: Laptop.
Date: 2004-09-23 04:50 pm (UTC)Kaythnxluvbye.
Apology
Date: 2004-09-23 06:42 pm (UTC)Sorry Josh.
See? This is why I don't blog. I'm a jerk when I'm hungry. :-(
KF Monkey.
Re: Apology
Date: 2004-09-24 08:46 am (UTC)Re: Apology
Date: 2004-09-24 09:28 am (UTC)KFM
Re: Apology
Date: 2004-09-24 10:04 am (UTC)Re: Apology
Date: 2004-09-24 10:12 am (UTC)Second, ZoneAlarm (software firewall) was being overly-aggressive. We uninstalled it, made the wifi go, reinstalled it, and it worked. (Using the 15-day nagware trial got it to auto-configure, and that might have been the key.)
I think that maybe the real reason it started working is that we called the Toshiba support line, and since we were trying to reproduce the bug for a tech, it went away. Now there's some guy in India who thinks I'm a total moron, but given that the computer works, I'll take it.
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Date: 2004-09-24 10:58 am (UTC)Is it plugged in?
Date: 2004-09-21 05:20 pm (UTC)Occasionally with the WiFi I have at home, the base and the card sort of have communication issues. Instead of expensive joint therapy, I'll unplug the base and let it reset - that sometimes works - and sometimes, they just need to be mad for awhile, the little cuties! Must squash cuties!!!
Re: Is it plugged in?
Date: 2004-09-22 09:59 am (UTC)Ya wanna come over for DDR and wifi debugging sometime? =)
Re: Is it plugged in?
Date: 2004-09-22 06:13 pm (UTC)Tomorrow (Thurs) night is open, Friday miiight be, but not sure - after that, next Thursday is the next option.
DDR
Date: 2004-09-23 02:08 pm (UTC)Call the house, let us know. (I'm in meetings the rest of the day.)