Plug it in and see if it will connect with that...bypassing the internal Wifi adapter/chipset. Good luck.
Posted on 07/09/2019 11:34:13 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
your getting either a lot of amateur advice or advice too advanced for your level.
Basically your internal wifi card is suspect.
Look at my previous:
buy a replacement usb wifi adapter
or go whole hog with something like this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hawking-Hi-Gain-Wireless-150N-USB-Network-Dish-Adapter-HWDN2/201695776833?epid=150761249&hash=item2ef6015041:g:6UEAAOSwW6Rcoiiy
On the other hand, reinstalling Win7/10 is the cheapest route.
No exclamation points. Looks OK.
BTW, I own a E6410 as a backup, retired it this year for a new Latitude.
E6410 pretty much lasted me some 9 or 10 years , much longer than any other laptop that I owned. Previous laptops 5-6+ years. But in the past year, it was getting long in the tooth, youtube was starting to be a strain. Plus on top of it I have lots of programming and database apps installed, some of which run in the background upon startup. Time to get a new one.
So your laptop is pretty old and mostly retired by most users. Follow my previous advice in earlier posts.
I finally did and it worked immediately. Still, like I said, the wireless adapter did work over at Wendys.
The USB wireless adapter hopefully looks like the answer. Look for one tomorrow.
You should check the settings on your router. If the laptop can connect to a wireless network somewhere else, you don’t have a problem on the laptop, necessarily. Do you have MAC address filtering turned on? Or maybe the DHCP address pool is all used up? Do some poking around and you might turn something up.
Did you try turning it off and on again?
There are some firewall settings that would block your access to any WiFi not previously approved, but I image you have a fresh Windows install, so this shouldn’t be an issues
Yeah, if Wendy’s worked maybe because it was an Open (unsecure) connection. Your security protocol on the “new” laptop may not be jiving with the router.
Lastly I also intermittently get the IP address conflict box.
Didn’t see this. Set your IP router address to static (put in the numbers yourself). You have another device with the same IP address you’re trying to use. This is the conflict. The router is not handing out IP addresses correctly.
Use for DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
I turned off the mac address filter. Like I said it successfully connects once every 2 or 3 hours of testing?????? Confusing. USB device.
Plug it in and see if it will connect with that...bypassing the internal Wifi adapter/chipset. Good luck.
Wanted to do it now so I bought and installed a Netgear device. Cost a few bucks more but its working. Got to do a reboot and seek if it connects again.
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