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From: greatcham on 30 Apr 2008 17:54
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?
From: Pavel A. on 30 Apr 2008 18:10
"greatcham" <greatcham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:201871D9-7BD9-431C-801B-94A89C40B20D(a)microsoft.com...
......................
> 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?

Ok since you can click on "View Available Wireless Networks",
the WZC is alive and kicking - but your wi-fi adapter is explicitly
configured NOT to work with WZC.
This is a persistent flag in the registry that survives reboot. The vendor
utility could set it.

Regards,
--PA


From: Jack (MVP-Networking). on 30 Apr 2008 19:13
Hi
May be this can Help.
My Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
Wireless Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"greatcham" <greatcham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:201871D9-7BD9-431C-801B-94A89C40B20D(a)microsoft.com...
> 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?

From: greatcham on 30 Apr 2008 21:23
Thanks! This helped me look at it more closely. But it's still not working
because

1. WZC is NOT running according to 'Services' (i.e. Run => services.msc),
and the device says it's using the manufacturer's driver (Broadcom). As a
result, it's not possible for me to roll back to the previous driver, because
the Device Manager thinks I never changed.

2. But as you point out, WZC IS running somehow, because when I ask to view
available networks, I still get "Windows cannot configure...." (You're
correct, the device says it's connected.)

You're also correct, this 3-year-old card cannot use WZC at all.

So how do I purge this ghost WZC? When I started it yesterday, I followed
these instructions from the Knowledge Base article
>To start the Wireless Zero Configuration service, follow these steps:
>1. Click Start, click Run, type %SystemRoot%\system32\services.msc /s, and then click OK.
>2. Double-click Wireless Zero Configuration.
>3. In the Startup type list, click Automatic, and then click Apply.
>4. In the Service status area, click Start, and then click OK.

There was a previous step in those instructions that I possibly did not do,
although I doubt that caused trouble:
>If your computer or your wireless network adapter did not come with its own >wireless network software, follow these steps:
>1. Click Start, click Run, type ncpa.cpl, and then click OK.
>2. Click Network Connections.
>3. In Network Connections, click to select your wireless connection, and then >click Change settings of this connection.
>4. On the Wireless Networks tab, click to select the Use Windows to configure >my wireless network settings check box.

When I attempt this now, of course there is no option to "Change settings of
this connection" because WZC is already in control.

Instructions???????


"Pavel A." wrote:

> "greatcham" <greatcham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:201871D9-7BD9-431C-801B-94A89C40B20D(a)microsoft.com...
> ......................
> > 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?
>
> Ok since you can click on "View Available Wireless Networks",
> the WZC is alive and kicking - but your wi-fi adapter is explicitly
> configured NOT to work with WZC.
> This is a persistent flag in the registry that survives reboot. The vendor
> utility could set it.
>
> Regards,
> --PA
>
>
>
From: greatcham on 30 Apr 2008 21:26
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."
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