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[gatesy323]

Let me start by saying that I am a complete linux noob. I've had my eee since Christmas and have loved every moment with it until now. For the past three weeks I have had no problems connecting to my home router or the router at my friend's house, but now I can't connect. The connection says that it is "pending" and never actually connects. I have been using the computer for three weeks without any problems and now, all of a sudden, it has stopped working. I have been extremely frustrated and I even tried a complete system restore which did not help at all. I am very close to just returning it to Costco and getting my money back. Can someone please help me fix my problem before I get rid of my eee forever?

[Niel1952]

Have you:

1. Rebooted the router
2. Deleted the network settings and re-entered them?

[gatesy323]

I haven't tried rebooting the router but I have tried connecting to three other unsecure routers that belong to my neighbors and each one only shows "pending." I have tried multiple times to delete the connection and reenter the WEP code, but each time the same "pending" shows up.

[gatesy323]

Okay, well, I have no idea why this worked, but I turned my router on and off and rebooted my eee and now it is working. I don't know why I would have to do that, but it worked so I am happy again. Now if only I hadn't deleted all of my data with a system restore . . .

[Neil]

D'oh! :(

[Waynecalcul]

In case you haven't tried this, update your router's firmware. This worked for me. No more PENDING issues.

Edited by Waynecalcul, 09 January 2008 - 03:23 AM.

[Dragonduster]

i changed from WEP to WPA and it worked for me, but thata weird since i have always used WEP lol

Edited by Dragonduster, 09 January 2008 - 03:27 AM.

[TheTurnipKing]

Given that WEP is totally unsecure these days anyway, you probably did the right thing.

[Hands0n]

Well, I have had a merry old dance with my brand new eeePC 4GB, fresh from PC World this morning!

Like everyone else on this thread I got the dreaded "Pending ........" problem. Out of the box I managed to get the eeePC to connect to one of my two WLANs. The first, based on an Airport Extreme Base Station (Apple), would not connect which I found out was to do with my use of spaces in the WPA keyphrase. So I switched across to my Sky Netgear DG934T. And that worked, for one single instance. I updated the eeePC and allowed it to re-boot and that was it. Bang! No more Wireless, just dozens of "Pending ....." results no matter what I did.

After about an hour of it I had enough - sitting right next to it and with me was my Macbook Pro quite happily attaching to the same router without any problem whatsoever. Then, something someone said in another thread struck a thought. I took my eeePC up to the study where the pair of routers are located and the eeePC attached to the Netgear without any problem whatsoever. In fact I have now brought it back down to the same location that I had trouble setting it up in and it works 100% fine there. I have also taken it a bit further away to see if I can get it to drop off he WLAN but it is quite happy to work wherever the Macbook Pro does!

At the time I was having all the troubles the signal strength display on the eeePC indicated that both my WLANs were seen at 100%. So I would think that even if the eeePC transmitter is a bit weaker - and why not - it should not be 90% or more weaker surely?

To be honest, I don't think that is what it was - but there is probably a good reason that it has managed to initialise its first connection to the WLAN and from which it is more than happy to resume now.

Weird really. I've not seen this kind of behavior before - and I do this for a living!!!

[grosvenoram]

I've got pending, please help. I have an eeepc4g and virgin wireless router attached to my desk/top. I can connect to a neighbours wifi but not my own. My sons laptop connects to my set-up ok so I know that my system is working. I'm slowly losing the will to live. Please help.

[NickW]

OK - So I've just used the search facility on the forum with the key "virgin router" and you are not alone in having problems. From the threads that came back from the search (there were about 20) there could be a number of reasons why Xandros (you didn't mention Xandros but since you've posted in the default forum I've made an assumption :) ) is having a problem. I can't tell you which of these issues you have but take a look in particular at this thread:- http://forum.eeeuser...ic.php?id=56363

Hope this helps

Cheers