Wireless network adapter only works on home network

I have a thinkpad laptop (T41) running XP Pro.
In the past month or so, I have been having a problem when traveling. When I
am in a hotel which has a wireless network, although my laptop can "see" the
network as an available wireless network, i am unable to access the internet.
When I go to command prompt and type "ipconfig", I get the following error
message:"An internal error occurred. A device attached to the system is not
functioning. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for further
help. Additional information: unknown media status code." Yet when I go into
device manager, it says that my wireless network adapter is working properly.
Today, I am at home and I am wirelessly retrieving files from my other
computers and accessing the internet, but I just determined that I am getting
the same error message as the one I typed above when I go into command prompt
and type "ipconfig". Note that I am getting the message even though I am
quite obviously connected to the network and am able to access the internet.
Does this make sense to anyone?
I need to leave for a business trip tomorrow and it is critical that I be
able to access my email.

Chiefjay

"chiefjay" wrote:

> I have a thinkpad laptop (T41) running XP Pro.
> In the past month or so, I have been having a problem when traveling. When I
> am in a hotel which has a wireless network, although my laptop can "see" the
> network as an available wireless network, i am unable to access the internet.
> When I go to command prompt and type "ipconfig", I get the following error
> message:"An internal error occurred. A device attached to the system is not
> functioning. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for further
> help. Additional information: unknown media status code." Yet when I go into
> device manager, it says that my wireless network adapter is working properly.
> Today, I am at home and I am wirelessly retrieving files from my other
> computers and accessing the internet, but I just determined that I am getting
> the same error message as the one I typed above when I go into command prompt
> and type "ipconfig". Note that I am getting the message even though I am
> quite obviously connected to the network and am able to access the internet.
> Does this make sense to anyone?
> I need to leave for a business trip tomorrow and it is critical that I be
> able to access my email.
>
> Chiefjay

What happen when you type the complete command like:
ipconfig /all on the prompt command (in cmd.exe)?.
Best if you send your question to the Wireless network newsgroup and we need
more info about your connection, wireless maker, do you have the windows
wireless configuration wizard dealing with the connection or the wireless
manufacturer utility being used here?, also is there is any VPN we don't know
about, are you able in the past to hook to Hot Spot without issue?.
Wireless newsgroup on the web here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=...rosoft.
HTH.
nass
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