Wireless LAN properties not saving

Not sure this is the right forum,, maybe it should be in hardware, or
configuration, or device drivers, ......

I've got a customer who has a Linksys "G" Access point and Linksys PCMCIA
"G" adapter. It works fine but when trying to enable WEP on the card I
have to choose "Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings" so
that I can enter the WEP key manually. (I've never seen the key generator
linysys says is supposed to be in the configuration dialog.)

I have the exact setup working on my home LAN without problems. For this
customer though we enable WEP and click ok. The wireless net is found and
all is well. Then we restart the computer and no wireless lan. Upon
further investigation we find that the "Use Windows to configure my
wireless network settings" is no longer selected. We select it and all is
well again. Reboot and again, no lan and the setting is unchecked again.
It won't save the settings.

Anyone know why this might be happening?

Windows XP Pro, SP1, Dell Lattitude C400, 512MB RAM.

J

Hi,

Make sure there aren't any third party network configuration profile
managers installed such as IBM Access Connections or if Dell has any
networking profile applications that maybe trying to update the wireless
connection settings during startup.

--
Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"Jakester" <Jaker00{DELTHS]@yah00.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94E5A33E0EAC2007@24.25.9.43...
> Not sure this is the right forum,, maybe it should be in hardware, or
> configuration, or device drivers, ......
>
> I've got a customer who has a Linksys "G" Access point and Linksys PCMCIA
> "G" adapter. It works fine but when trying to enable WEP on the card I
> have to choose "Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings" so
> that I can enter the WEP key manually. (I've never seen the key generator
> linysys says is supposed to be in the configuration dialog.)
>
> I have the exact setup working on my home LAN without problems. For this
> customer though we enable WEP and click ok. The wireless net is found and
> all is well. Then we restart the computer and no wireless lan. Upon
> further investigation we find that the "Use Windows to configure my
> wireless network settings" is no longer selected. We select it and all is
> well again. Reboot and again, no lan and the setting is unchecked again.
> It won't save the settings.
>
> Anyone know why this might be happening?
>
> Windows XP Pro, SP1, Dell Lattitude C400, 512MB RAM.
>
> J

"Gary Tsang" <garyDELETE@MEaumha.org> wrote in news:#3omT5sNEHA.3012
@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:

> Hi,
>
> Make sure there aren't any third party network configuration profile
> managers installed such as IBM Access Connections or if Dell has any
> networking profile applications that maybe trying to update the wireless
> connection settings during startup.
>

Thanks Gary,

There was an "Oddsey Client" in there and I am not sure where it came from.
Also I just realized that linksys has a monitoring app running in the
system tray. I bet that's where I need to configure the settings for the
connection and it's probably overwriting windows settings upon restart.

Thanks!