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tjohn
04-28-09, 09:20 AM
This is for the laptop in my sig. Before I started using win7 beta's, in vista 64 I power on the lappy and I get the pop up (windows could not connect to all network drives), I have one networked drive. Also networking says I have no internet. But, when I open up firefox I get right on, and when I browse to the networked drive it has a red x by it but when I click on it the red x goes away and I'm able get into it. Both of these things are annoying but livable.

Then I started using win7 beta's and both problems went away. Now I just clean installed win7 RC1 and both problems have returned :(

Anyone know what is causing this?
nekrosoft13
04-28-09, 10:29 AM
since this is a laptop, you are probably talking about wireless. What you are experiencing is probably the short delay it takes wireless to actually connect to the router.
tjohn
04-28-09, 01:27 PM
since this is a laptop, you are probably talking about wireless. What you are experiencing is probably the short delay it takes wireless to actually connect to the router.

Yeah, I thought about that but I have another much older laptop with a pcma or whatever you call it card (wireless G) with no delay at all.
nekrosoft13
04-28-09, 01:44 PM
but that is the thing, not every wireless device plays nice each other. There are many diffrent chipsets: Intel, Atheros, Broadcom, Ralink, VIA, Marvell, Realtek etc...

For instance from personal experience Atheros and Broadcom doesn't play nice.

My Laptop has two internal wi-fi card, Atheros and Intel, each card works differently with diffrent routers.
tjohn
04-28-09, 01:48 PM
OK, thanks I understand that. Just weird that builds 7000, 7057, and 7077 worked fine. Ah well....
nekrosoft13
04-28-09, 02:07 PM
both my Intel and Atheros cards work fine with RC1, maybe there is compability issue with your card and RC1
crainger
04-28-09, 02:46 PM
My Netgear DG834PN would not play nice with my mobile or my PS3. ::(:
Swapped if for a Buffalo running dd-wrt and everything is perfect.
tjohn
04-28-09, 08:09 PM
both my Intel and Atheros cards work fine with RC1, maybe there is compability issue with your card and RC1

Yes, searching.... searching.... :(