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From: Pavel A. on 1 May 2008 05:23
"greatcham" <greatcham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> PS: just to confirm, I also can't get rid of WZC by going to Advanced
> Properties of the connection, because the option "WZC Managed Ethernet" is
> already marked "disabled."

Now I'm confused... where is this "WZC Managed Ethernet" setting?
Three years old driver definitely may support WZC (perhaps without WPA2
encryption).
Maybe your best option here is calling Dell support.

Regards,
Pavel


From: greatcham on 1 May 2008 12:23
Thanks for asking -- I managed to truly disable WZC now. My Lotus/Meraki
connection is running fine again and I'm going to stay off my neighbor's!

I was at
Control Panel -> Network Connections -> this Dell card -> Connection Status
-> Properties -> General -> Configure -> Advanced. This gives a list of
about 20 properties, starting with

802.11h
Afterburner
Antenna Diversity....

Toward the end of the list there are
WZC IBSS Channel Number (set by default to 11)
WZC Managed Ethernet

I found "WZC Managed Ethernet" marked as disabled. Now, I enabled and
disabled it again. The take-home part for me is that this panel really
allowed me to change the status, whereas the system Services panel did not.
Thank you so much for helping me look over it.
From: Pavel A. on 1 May 2008 12:41
"greatcham" <greatcham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for asking -- I managed to truly disable WZC now. My Lotus/Meraki
> connection is running fine again and I'm going to stay off my neighbor's!
>
> I was at
> Control Panel -> Network Connections -> this Dell card -> Connection
> Status
> -> Properties -> General -> Configure -> Advanced. This gives a list of
> about 20 properties, starting with
>
> 802.11h
> Afterburner
> Antenna Diversity....
>
> Toward the end of the list there are
> WZC IBSS Channel Number (set by default to 11)
> WZC Managed Ethernet
>
> I found "WZC Managed Ethernet" marked as disabled. Now, I enabled and
> disabled it again. The take-home part for me is that this panel really
> allowed me to change the status, whereas the system Services panel did
> not.
> Thank you so much for helping me look over it.

Glad to be of help. You're welcome.

--PA


From: smlunatick on 1 May 2008 14:48
On Apr 30, 5:54 pm, greatcham <greatc...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> My Dell WLAN card has always worked fine with its native driver.  Recently, I
> encountered problems with a local non-secure wireless network with a strong
> signal:  the connection status showed as "connected" showing a good signal
> strength etc.  But there was obviously no working connection:  every attempt
> to access a web page immediately gave a blank page with "Done."  Also, I had
> previously used this network with no problem -- yes, I did verify that the
> network is still non-secure.
>
> Assuming that the problem was with my card, I enabled Wireless Zero
> Connection as described in Knowledge Base article 871122.  Now the connection
> still doesn't work (although the radio shows a strong connection in place),
> and I'm thinking of disabling WZC.  Should I do this by doing Configure ->
> Advanced for my WLAN card and disabling "WZC IBSS Channel Number" and "WZC
> Managed Ethernet"?  Could I also have messed up the process of enabling WZC?  
> Now, when I attempt to "View Available Wireless Networks," I get only an
> error message saying "Windows cannot configure this wireless connection" and
> referring me to the Knowledge Base article on starting WZC.  Get rid of WZC;
> uninstall and reinstall; or try something different?

Most wireless adapters will / should work with Wireless Zero
Configuration, providing that you turn off the vendor's provide
services / management utility. This Dell may have an automatic
starting tools (WLAN???) in the Startup group.
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