Wireless - icon showing turned off?

superbiatch · 04-09-2007, 18:45

I've got the Netgear DG834G and my icon in the system tray is showing as turned off - although its not because i'm posting this using the wireless

Anyone got any ideas?? Possibly some spyware??

Thanks in advance

Cobbydaler · 04-09-2007, 19:04

Which icon do you mean? The icon for your wireless NIC's utility software or the Windows icon?

Uncle Peter · 04-09-2007, 19:18

Is it a laptop? if so, do you have a switch on the front/side of your machine or do you enable/disable by means of a Function/F key combination?

edit... scratch that, I've read your post again and I should have gone to specasavers

superbiatch · 04-09-2007, 20:26

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Which icon do you mean? The icon for your wireless NIC's utility software or the Windows icon?

Its the intel software wireless utility icon in the system tray, still showing as off

EDIT: Just refreshed my wireless connection and its showing as working again now, very weird!

Cobbydaler · 04-09-2007, 21:03

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Originally Posted by superbiatch

Its the intel software wireless utility icon in the system tray, still showing as off

EDIT: Just refreshed my wireless connection and its showing as working again now, very weird!

May be something to do with the DG834G PnP capability...

See here. I used to have one & it didn't always show up in the PnP devices view.

MikeyB · 04-09-2007, 21:54

My Mum gets this happening with the Belkin PCI wireless card & software in her desktop connecting to her Sky Netgear router.
The icon will keep going red and saying disconnected, but it's clearly still working as the internet is fine.
It will go back to green & connected after a few minutes, or after a refresh of the networks.

I just told her to ignore it and only call me when it really isn't working!

dragon · 04-09-2007, 23:38

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Originally Posted by superbiatch

Its the intel software wireless utility icon in the system tray, still showing as off

EDIT: Just refreshed my wireless connection and its showing as working again now, very weird!

My pcs do that all the time perticually vista even on the wired connection.

the systray icon is sometimes very slow to change I will have sometimes managed to open up thunderbird and will be downloading emails from the server and signed onto windows live messenger before vista notices its on-line

Had a friends PC running XP that was being used with a cheapo generic Wireless adaptor that would usually tell you that it had no network connection.

Yet it was perfectly possible to surf the internet on this machine with no problem, and the status leds on the Adaptor showed a connection it was just windows that was inisiting it wasn't connected.