Question about my Windows 7 install and wifi conne

[Johnny248]

Hey guys. This has been bothering me, but I'm not even sure if it is a problem.

A couple of days ago I installed windows 7 on my Toshiba Satellite lap top. Everything went fine, everything works, all the drivers installed on their own, etc.

However, my wifi connection is strange. My house is setup with ATT Uverse, and has a 2wire gateway. This laptop and my HP (still on vista) always connected fine with no problems.

With my Windows 7 Install, I have a little yellow ball over my wifi connection icon on the task bar, and when you hover over it says "Not connected - Connections available" and if I click on it, it shows all the wifi connections available, and at the top it says again "Not Connected Connections available" . So this is were it gets weird, My home wifi (which I am connected to because I am online" says "Limited Access" and when I click on status it is " IPv4 Not Connected and IPv6 Not Connected" yet it shows speed 54mb etc"

So I don't get it. On past versions of windows I've had issues with "limited access" but it would always give me a problem where I would have no internet connection over the wifi. So my w7 says I'm not connected to a network, or if I am, I have limited access to one yet I have full access with internet???? What gives??? I wish it would actually say that I'm connected to my network.

And on one last note (sorry for the long long post) when I type ipconfig it shows an IPv4 address. So I'm totally lost.

Any help??

 

[Quest]

You may have some basic configurations RE: IPv4 and IPv6 to sort out, amongst a few other things (is your wireless router set to WPA-PSK or WEP? or? how about Mac Address lockdown?)

Q.

 

[Johnny248]

I have my security on WPA2-Personal AES in windows or "WPA2-PSK(AES) when you look at my router settings"

I'm not sure about the mac address thing. I don't know what I am looking for there to be honest.



Just tried something, I disabled my wireless security, and just made it open with no password. Disconnected and connected again and it does the same exact thing. everything works, but it still says limited connectivity so I don't believe it is security related.

 

[beast3300]

Possibly try the built in repair feature. Maybe W7 will figure out something. If that doesn't work then I would visit Toshiba's website or wifi manufacture and see if there is a newer W7 driver than installed now.

 

[sxg6]

I've read a variety of problems that can cause this message. Some people report disabling their wired ethernet adapters solves it, others say choosing a specific wireless channel instead of auto-select solves it, heres a link to another possible fix.

http://pocketpccentral.net/blog/2009/11/...oblem-resolved/

 

[Buffman]

windows managed or software managed by card/laptop manufacturer?

 

[Johnny248]

Well,

I'm not sure what happened. But I did a system restore to the first available in the Windows 7 restore feature. Of course it "de-customized" my desktop, etc and required me to download all of the updates again, but it did bring back my connection. I am fully connected and can access my home network again.

Thanks for everyones help.