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Strange: Works, doesn't works, then works

Hello All

This is so odd that I'm hoping the problem has to be obvious.

I have a friend with a new Gateway laptop with "g" wireless and NIC cards.

She just got a Linksys WRT54G. The NIC works fine, but we could NOT set up the wireless using either the Linksys CD wizard or the Windows wireless setup. We WERE able to get the wireless going by switching over to the NIC card, visiting the Linksys web site and running that Easy Connect program. Then the wireless works great ... UNTIL we shut down the computer. Then, the only way to get it going again is to go back to the web site and run Easy Connect again (actually, I think it shows an "excellent" connection between the laptop and router but no Internet connection until we run Easy Connect.) We've done this several times. Obviously, it's a real pain having to run Easy Connect every time we want to go wireless.

This is very strange .. that it keeps becoming non-functional when we restart that the Linksys CD can't get it going while the Easy Connect program can.. Anyone have an idea what gets lost or messed up when we restart the machine. (Yes, we are starting the wireless card. The laptop wireless light is lit).

Thanks for any thoughts.