I wasn't sure if this was a security concern, but it has me racking my brain trying to figure it out. A guy comes to me with his laptop and tells me he can't connecting to his wireless network. He has WEP enabled and SSID broadcast off. So I go in and enter in his WEP ID and SSID. I also notice that he has a static IP address set up in his TCP/IP settings for 192.168.1.x, so I change that to DHCP because I know his home network is using 192.168.0.x. I also noticed he has 1394 Connection disabled, so I reenable that. His workstation begins to work.

The thing is, there's still an X over his icon on the bottom right side of his screen. I start to browse the net and start to go to sites that I know he doesn't frequent, like this one. No problem what so ever. I was then thinking, maybe something to do with teh 1394, so I disable that. Well, his connection goes down and then back up. I go to the command console to check his IP and he was issued an IP address from the DHCP server on his router.

I graze the mouse clicker over the icon and it says, "Wireless Connection not connected, right click for details" I do this and then all of a sudden, the connection drops. It says to click connect to connect. I do this and then it sasy, "Not Connected" on the menu and the toggle button says, "Disconnect"

Any ideas? bad card?

BTW, it's been dropping and coming up this entire time and the x still remains.