Re: Wireless connect with a new NIC

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The salesrep did a standard Windows disk cleanup last night and now
everything works fine.

That's a new one on me.


On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> All,
>
> A salesrep laptop (Dell E6400) motherboard had issues so the local PC shop
> found a refurbed Dell E6500 and installed the hard drive into it.
>
> He had numerous wifi networks already set up that are still there.  But he
> can't get any of them to actually work.  He even reenters the passcode.
> Has tried in in many locations.  Won't even work with the wifi hotspot in
> his phone.
>
> Could it be that since this is a new NIC with a different MAC address,
> that he needs to 'forget' each wifi individually and add them back?  I'm
> guessing not because it worked for me here in the office with our wifi.
> But I'm running out of things to try.
>
> Ideas?  Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Jeff Crosby
> VP Information Systems
> UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531
> www.dilgardfoods.com
>
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