played with oddessy and now no wifi

sandyman · 07-30-05, 10:09 AM

I've had my X30 for a while now and have had no problems connecting to my wrt54g or other hotspots. I was sitting around playing with oddessy (I usually use the DEll WLAN utility) and now I can't connect at home. I've disabled oddessy and have turned off the encryption on the router and it did not help. The dell wlan utility says searching ( it seems stuck on channel 10) and if I go to edit wireless profiles I can see my home network but if I connect, nothing happens. Looking at the DHCP clients table on my router it is not showing up. Furthermore if I do to avanced/network trobleshooting its not getting assigned an IP address and hitting "repair" gets me the "no wiresless connection was established, a new IP address was not requested"

The funny thing is that the green light for the wifi is flashing but the connectivity icon next to the speaker icon never gets the "halo" that I usually see when its connecting to a network. I've tuned on/off/on the power management with no help so I think that its likely the network adapter but I don't recall which oneI used previously. I've tried all of the different network adapters but none seem to connect

I've also tried two soft resets with no help and really want to avoid a hard reset if possible. I'm thinking that there is something wrong with the wireless adapter but I'm not sure how to fix it.

Sandy

07-30-05, 11:01 AM

Sandy,

I don't have a fix for you, but I've had the same thing happen with my X50v. I fiddled around with it for a long time with no success. Then, suddenly it began to work again and I have no idea what got it back on track.

Others have had similar experiences. Go figure!!

Good luck! :approve:

07-30-05, 11:10 AM

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showp...3&postcount=11

07-30-05, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by tancerman

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showp...3&postcount=11

This fix didn't work for me last night, but it has in the past. I finally just gave up and set up the odyssey client and am using that. It actually connects faster than the wlan utility.

07-31-05, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by drowe

This fix didn't work for me last night, but it has in the past. I finally just gave up and set up the odyssey client and am using that. It actually connects faster than the wlan utility.

Did you try a soft or hard reset? That would fix it. If not somehow you are probably entering the wrong settings on the built in utility.

But yes, I find odyssey client to connect faster.

sandyman · 08-06-05, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by tancerman

Did you try a soft or hard reset? That would fix it. If not somehow you are probably entering the wrong settings on the built in utility.

But yes, I find odyssey client to connect faster.

I finally got to the hard reset and of course when it rains it pours, my wrt54g went crazy for a while and I had to fix that first. Now both are operating again although I configured oddessey this time. Aside from the increased connection speed, is there anything else that I should know about Oddessey?

08-06-05, 09:40 PM

Not really. Just if you want to switch back to the built in utility you have to follow this http://www.aximsite.com/boards/show...13&postcount=11