Hi,
I just picked up a Dell Inspiron 640m laptop, which comes with an internal wireless card, Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card Rev 3.6. My router at home is an older one, an SMC 7004VWBR. Had it for a couple of years, its only
802.11b (i think).The SMC had worked well before with an older dell laptop, but it had an SMC PCMCIA wireless card to talk to the router.
With the new dell, I upgraded the SMC firmware so that I could use WPA encryption. That all seemed to go ok, and I turned on encryption and all is good, right?
Kinda....
Occasionally, while surfing, the Dell loses its inetrnet connection. Firefox shows that page not found error. Checking the wireless info, I will have an excellent signal to the router and no indication of anything wrong. By right-clicking on the wireless icon and selecting 'Repair', the problem is fixed and back to surfing, etc. This happens at least once or twice a day. And happens at seemingly random times during normal use of the laptop.
When this happens, I do know that the router is still flowing info from my ISP cause I have checked my desktop, which is hard-wired to the router, and it still has a connection to the outside.
Does this sound more like a router or wireless card problem? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, DoranCat