HP Pavilion ZE2000 (Broadcom internal)

**eedmond** · May 11th, 2006, 11:15 PM

I am having a problem. My mom just got a brand new HP Pavilion ZE2000 Laptop from work. I am the tech guy at her work and set it up just fine with the 2 wireless routers that they have. At work they have WPA-PSK 128 bit encryption and it worked fine with the Buffalo Tech WBR-G54 and a Belkin F5D8230-4 Pre-N MIMO router's. They also use Mac Filtering.

I then took the computer home and this thing will NOT connect to my router.

I have a Netgear WGR614v6 router (Latest BIOS 1.0.11). I have had similar problems before at work and at home and usually it just required me to install a newer driver. But this laptop has the latest driver that I could find (4.0.40.1 I think it was). At home I had it set on WPA Encryption and Mac Filtering. In order for this laptop to work at all I have to disable both Mac Filtering and the WPA Encryption. Then it can connect to the internet. The weird thing is that the icon says it's disconnected the whole time. I even tried WPA-PSK and all kinds of other security settings. None work properly, it will connect and talk to the router but it just sits there waiting for a address to be assigned. I can manually assign the computer a IP Address and it says it works and everything looks ok but it won't connect to the internet then (all DNS errors). Yes I know the router works because I have a desktop that connects wirelessly and it works fine.

I don't know what else to do.

**eedmond** · May 12th, 2006, 12:47 AM

Well I reset my Router and put it back to WPA-PSK TKIP. I then turned the laptop back on and reset all it's wireless settings. Now it's working.

Weird.