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05-20-2007, 10:33 AM
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Wireless Hardware Appears Dead
How do you know when your networking problem comes from Hardware? I'm using an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG on my Gateway laptop and I think my card is dead, but I'm not sure how to tell.
The problem: I see absolutely no networks anywhere. Period. I've checked using other computers (like the one I am using right now...) and the network is definitely there and working fine. It's invisible to the Gateway. I've uninstalled the driver and reinstalled the hardware, also to no avail. I've updated the driver, rolled back the driver, reupdated the driver, massaged the driver and seranaded the driver. At what point can I safely assume that the hardware has kicked the bucket. I ask this mostly because on a recent desktop computer my on board ethernet connection kicked the bucket, but magically reappeared after I installed Linux  . Could this, too, secretly be a system problem?
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05-20-2007, 12:10 PM
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try pinging 127.0.0.1. that will tell you if you have a bad NIC or not.
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