Wireless association to this network failed

Hi

I have a HP Pavilion DV6 1125ei laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium SP2. I have an Atheros AR9285 802.11b/g wifi adapter. I use a lynksys WRT54GL router.

The other day I turned on my laptop and suddenly there was no network connection, and no wireless networks found. ( My LAN has packed in) Occasionally windows would say wireless networks were available, but when I tried to connect, they vanished. I then tried upgrading my router to the latest stable standard v24 of dd-wrt. That was successful and now windows reports wireless networks are available, it sees the dd-wrt network but I cannot connect. Error message - Wireless association to this network failed. windows did not receive any response from the wireless router or access point. I have tried DHCP and a static ip setting, my atheros has the latest driver. I have turned off the router firewall, windows firewall and antivirus. I have set up the wireless connection as 'open' not secured, and I still cannot connect.

I don't know what else to try - has anyone got ideas? I have another computer connecting via LAN and it is working.

 

Your explanation of the problem and the detail of attempts you have made to repair it are excellent. It helps a lot in diagnosing a problem.

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling it the WIFI Controller?

You may want to try resetting the Winsock as well. At the Command Prompt run "netsh winsock reset catalog"

 

I forgot to ask: Is the problem isolated to this specific network or does the problem exist everywhere you try to connect?

 

Hi

Many thanks for your reply. I reset the winsock, uninstalled and reinstalled the wifi controller, but am still getting the same error message. I don't understand it, working one day and not the next. I don't have any other networks to try, I am in a remote area and use satelite internet.

I ran a virus check and that came up with nothing. I will check through my event logs again in case I missed something.

 

See if changing channels on the router helps.

 

Hi

Thanks for your replies and advice. Yesterday just before I gave up for the day, I reset the winsock and switched off my laptop. Today I switched it on intending to try different channels, and my laptop found and connected to my network! I have run my laptop all day, rebooted a few times and can still connect, so hopefully the problem has been resolved.

Thanks very much for taking the time to give me your advice!