Cisco 1811W stopped allowing wireless connection of domain laptops

I have a Cisco 1811W that after several years in service suddenly stopped allowing any wireless connection to laptops on the domain. It allows hard wired connections and devices that are just using the wireless hot spot like iPads and Iphones but not devices on the domain. These same laptops connect wirelessly without issue at our other facilities which use the same hardware.
Here is the config file...
Here is the config file of the router in question...
router#show run
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 11776 bytes
version 12.4
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec localtime show-timezone year
service password-encryption
hostname xxx
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
logging message-counter syslog
logging buffered 4096
no logging console
enable secret 5 xxxx
aaa new-model
aaa authentication login default local
aaa authorization exec default local
aaa session-id common
crypto pki trustpoint TP-self-signed-1083484987
enrollment selfsigned
subject-name cn=IOS-Self-Signed-Certificate-1083484987
revocation-check none
rsakeypair TP-self-signed-xxxx
dot11 syslog
dot11 ssid xxxx
vlan 44
authentication open
authentication key-management wpa
wpa-psk ascii 7
dot11 ssid xxxx
vlan 144
authentication open
authentication key-management wpa
guest-mode
wpa-psk ascii 7
ip source-route
no ip dhcp use vrf connected
ip dhcp excluded-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
ip dhcp excluded-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
ip dhcp excluded-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
ip dhcp pool xxx-LAN
networkxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.0
domain-name xxxx
dns-server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
default-router xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
lease 0 2
ip dhcp pool VLAN44
network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.0
default-router xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
domain-name xxxx
dns-server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
lease 4
ip dhcp pool VLAN144
network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.0
default-router xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
domain-name xxxx
dns-server 12.127.16.67 12.127.16.68
lease 4
ip cef
ip domain name xxxx
ip name-server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
ip name-server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
ip inspect tcp reassembly queue length 24
ip inspect name IPFW tcp timeout 3600
ip inspect name IPFW udp timeout 15
ip inspect name IPFW ftp
ip inspect name IPFW realaudio
ip inspect name IPFW smtp
ip inspect name IPFW h323
ip inspect name IPFW ftps
ip inspect name IPFW http
ip inspect name IPFW https
ip inspect name IPFW icmp
ip inspect name IPFW imap
ip inspect name IPFW imaps
ip inspect name IPFW irc
ip inspect name IPFW ircs
ip inspect name IPFW ntp
ip inspect name IPFW pop3
ip inspect name IPFW pop3s
ip inspect name IPFW radius
ip inspect name IPFW sip
ip inspect name IPFW sip-tls
ip inspect name IPFW ssh
ip inspect name IPFW telnet
ip inspect name IPFW telnets
ip inspect name IPFW vdolive
ip inspect name IPFW webster
ip inspect name IPFW dns
no ipv6 cef
multilink bundle-name authenticated
password encryption aes
file prompt quiet
username admin password n
username laneadmin password n
crypto isakmp policy 1
encr aes
authentication pre-share
group 2
crypto isakmp policy 2
encr 3des
authentication pre-share
group 2
crypto isakmp key 5122662533fedcbabcdef address 12.97.225.232
crypto isakmp key 5122662533fedcbabcdef address 12.97.224.120
crypto isakmp key 5122662533fedcbabcdef address 12.97.225.152
crypto isakmp key 5122662533fedcbabcdef address 12.97.230.154
crypto isakmp key 5122662533fedcbabcdef address 12.97.225.226
crypto ipsec security-association lifetime seconds 28800
crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES256-SHA esp-aes 256 esp-sha-hmac
crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-3DES-SHA esp-3des esp-sha-hmac
crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES256-SHA-LZO esp-aes 256 esp-sha-hmac comp-lzs
crypto ipsec df-bit clear
crypto ipsec profile SITE-to-SITE-DMVPN-Profile
set transform-set ESP-AES256-SHA
crypto ipsec client ezvpn ezvpn-client
connect auto
mode client
xauth userid mode interactive
archive
log config
logging enable
notify syslog contenttype plaintext
hidekeys
path scp://cisco:wrs-.o#d8Au8M@fs00/$h-$t
write-memory
ip ssh version 2
bridge irb
interface Loopback0
ip address 1.1.1.5 255.255.255.252
interface Tunnel0
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.0
no ip redirects
ip nhrp map xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 12.97.230.154
ip nhrp map multicast 12.97.230.154
ip nhrp map xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 12.97.225.226
ip nhrp map multicast 12.97.225.226
ip nhrp network-id 1
ip nhrp nhs xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
ip nhrp nhs xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
tunnel source 12.97.225.234
tunnel mode gre multipoint
tunnel protection ipsec profile SITE-to-SITE-DMVPN-Profile
interface Dot11Radio0
no ip address
no dot11 extension aironet
encryption vlan 44 mode ciphers tkip
encryption vlan 144 mode ciphers tkip
ssid XXXX
ssid XXX-guest
speed basic-1.0 2.0 5.5 6.0 9.0 11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0
channel 2437
station-role root
no cdp enable
interface Dot11Radio0.44
encapsulation dot1Q 44
bridge-group 44
bridge-group 44 subscriber-loop-control
bridge-group 44 spanning-disabled
bridge-group 44 block-unknown-source
no bridge-group 44 source-learning
no bridge-group 44 unicast-flooding
interface Dot11Radio0.144
encapsulation dot1Q 144
bridge-group 144
bridge-group 144 subscriber-loop-control
bridge-group 144 spanning-disabled
bridge-group 144 block-unknown-source
no bridge-group 144 source-learning
no bridge-group 144 unicast-flooding
interface Dot11Radio1
no ip address
speed basic-6.0 9.0 basic-12.0 18.0 basic-24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0
station-role root
interface FastEthernet0
description 604 AT&T static IP
ip address 12.97.225.234 255.255.255.248
ip access-group IPFW-ACL-outside-A in
no ip redirects
no ip proxy-arp
ip nat outside
ip inspect IPFW out
ip virtual-reassembly
duplex auto
speed auto
interface FastEthernet1
no ip address
shutdown
duplex auto
speed auto
interface FastEthernet2
switchport access vlan 4
spanning-tree portfast
interface FastEthernet3
description phone system
switchport access vlan 4
spanning-tree portfast
interface FastEthernet4
switchport access vlan 4
spanning-tree portfast
interface FastEthernet5
switchport access vlan 4
spanning-tree portfast
interface FastEthernet6
switchport access vlan 4
spanning-tree portfast
interface FastEthernet7
switchport access vlan 4
spanning-tree portfast
interface FastEthernet8
switchport access vlan 4
spanning-tree portfast
interface FastEthernet9
description switchport uplink
switchport access vlan 4
interface Vlan1
no ip address
interface Vlan4
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.0
no ip redirects
no ip proxy-arp
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
ip tcp adjust-mss 1200
ip policy route-map NONAT-LAN
interface Vlan5
no ip address
interface Vlan10
no ip address
interface Vlan44
description nnn private WLAN
no ip address
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
ip policy route-map NONAT-LAN
bridge-group 44
bridge-group 44 spanning-disabled
interface Vlan144
description nnn Guest WLAN
no ip address
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
ip policy route-map NONAT-LAN
bridge-group 144
bridge-group 144 spanning-disabled
interface Async1
no ip address
encapsulation slip
interface BVI44
description Bridge to nnn private WLAN
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
interface BVI144
description Bridge to nnn Guest WLAN
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
router eigrp 1
network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
no auto-summary
ip forward-protocol nd
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 12.97.225.233
no ip http server
no ip http secure-server
ip nat inside source list NAT-ACL interface FastEthernet0 overload
ip nat inside source static tcp xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 22 interface FastEthernet0 22222
ip nat inside source route-map NO-NAT interface FastEthernet0 overload
ip access-list standard VTY-ACL
permit 192.168.0.0 0.0.63.255
ip access-list extended IPFW-ACL-outside
permit udp any any eq isakmp
permit udp any eq isakmp any
permit esp any any
permit tcp any host 12.97.225.234 eq 23232
permit icmp any any administratively-prohibited
permit icmp any any echo-reply
permit icmp any any packet-too-big
permit icmp any any time-exceeded
permit icmp any any traceroute
deny ip any any
ip access-list extended IPFW-ACL-outside-A
permit tcp any host 12.97.225.234 eq 22222
permit udp any any eq isakmp
permit udp any eq isakmp any
permit esp any any
permit tcp any host 12.97.225.234 eq 23232
permit icmp any any administratively-prohibited
permit icmp any any echo-reply
permit icmp any any packet-too-big
permit icmp any any time-exceeded
permit icmp any any traceroute
deny ip any any
ip access-list extended NAT-ACL
deny ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 any
deny ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 any
deny ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255
deny ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 any
ip access-list extended NONAT-LAN-RETURNING-ACL
permit ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255
permit ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255
ip access-list extended VTY-ACL-A
deny ip 192.168.160.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit ip 192.168.44.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit ip 192.168.144.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit ip 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit ip 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit ip 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit ip 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit ip 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255 any
permit tcp any any eq 22
deny ip any any
logging trap notifications
logging source-interface Vlan5
logging 192.168.0.225
route-map NONAT-LAN permit 10
match ip address NONAT-LAN-RETURNING-ACL
set interface Loopback0
route-map NO-NAT permit 10
match ip address NAT-ACL
snmp-server community XXXsnmppub RO
control-plane
bridge 44 route ip
bridge 144 route ip
banner login ^C
Unauthorized access is prohibited and will be monitored and prosecuted.
If you are not explicitly authorized to access this device, you must
disconnect now.
^C
banner motd ^C
Unauthorized access is prohibited and will be monitored and prosecuted.
If you are not explicitly authorized to access this device, you must
disconnect now.
^C
line con 0
line 1
modem InOut
stopbits 1
speed 115200
flowcontrol hardware
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
access-class VTY-ACL-A in
password 7 nnn
transport input ssh
line vty 5 15
webvpn gateway webgateway
ssl trustpoint TP-self-signed-1083484987
no inservice
webvpn gateway sslvpn.xxx
hostname www.nnn
ssl trustpoint TP-self-signed-1083484987
inservice
end
router#

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What you mean is a wireless router. Very different from a wireless modem of which there are several (e.g. ethernet, USB and CardBus). Yes, you set up a wireless network via that modem/router. However, you situation is totally dependent on what your ISP provides/recommends. Check with your ISP. If they provide you with just a modem, you would pick up something like the AirPort Express to create a wireless network for your notebook to access wirelessly.

Wireless connection between to laptops

My girlfriend and I have the same laptop, powerbook g4 15 inch. Without being connected to the internet, i can use my built in airport extreme to creat my own wirelss network. I click the "create network..." button and the box comes up asking me to name the network and then I click okay and voila, the network is created. Now when my girlfriend chooses to connect to my computers network, it asks her for a login on name and I usually have to log on as my name. Now I wanted to know if I could create a logon name and password for her to use without creating a whole new account on my computer. I would just like to add that this network has nothing to do with connecting to the internet, or using a airport extreme base of any sort. I just want to be able to create and account for her to logon too to access the share folder from her laptop. This is purely using the two powerbook. Thanks.

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HP Officejet 6500A Plus will not maintain wireless connection reliably

For the HP EXPERTS on Expert Day, April 18, 2012:
B.L.A.T. (Bottom Line At Top): We have an HP Officejet 6500A Plus purchased about 5 months ago. We wanted to use it as a wireless-connected printer in another room besides our home office. It is useless to us because it will not maintain its wireless connection, even sitting just a few feet from the router in the same room. Except for numerous hours of troubleshooting, we have left it sitting powered up, but unused and idle, for almost the entire 5 months in our home office. DURING ALL THAT IDLE TIME, IT HAS LOGGED OVER 3,200 DISCONNECTS, at a consistent rate of 24 disconnects every 24 hours, even though it ALWAYS reports that the wireless signal quality is “EXCELLENT” (all this is according to the Wireless Network Test Reports we’ve printed throughout the last 5 months). So our question is, what is it that this printer is trying to do once an hour over a wireless connection that is causing these thousands of disconnects? And how can we stop it?
NOTE! Before you round up the usual suspects (namely our router and our PC firewalls) please note that we also bought an HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus ON THE SAME DAY as the Officejet 6500A Plus. The 8600 was also installed with a wireless connection, and has worked without a single network issue for the entire 5 months.
NOW, FOR THE REST OF THE STORY…
WHO WE ARE: My wife and I have worked on HP equipment for 33 years, starting in 1979 as corporate customers of HP when we worked for Exxon; then we both worked for HP directly for 17 years; and we’ve now used dozens of pieces of HP equipment in our home during the last 12 years in retirement. We’re primarily software folks, so we’re not exactly experts in hardware and networking, but on the other hand, this ain’t our first rodeo either.
OUR CONFIGURATION:
PC’s – All running Windows 7 x64 with all important patches applied and Norton Internet Security 2012: HPE-270f and HP AIO 200-Quad, each with full 6500A and 8600A drivers installed on wireless connection. These 2 PC’s themselves can connect either wirelessly or via Ethernet to our home network. The 270f has a dual-band wireless board. Both bands work. We also have a new dv7t laptop with only the full 6500A driver installed via wireless connection. The laptop is now upstairs and it’s connected to our home network wirelessly without any issues. (This is where we had hoped to also put the 6500A, but it needs to work reliably via wireless connection.)
ROUTER: Netgear N600 WNDR3700 providing Ethernet and wireless networking. Router provides a very strong wireless signal throughout the house. No wireless problems with any other equipment including an iPod, two Kindle Fires besides all the HP equipment.
PRINTERS: Besides the two HP printers, the HPE-270f PC has a Canon MP960 installed on it. And if we can’t get the 6500A working right or replaced with something that does work right, we may be buying our second Canon printer. By the way, on the 6500A, ePrint and App’s are set to ON, but of course they’re not being used, just like everything else on this AIO.
OTHER: We also have a Sonos music system that connects to our network via Ethernet and has its own proprietary mesh network (on another frequency) for transmitting ripped music wirelessly to speaker units throughout our house. (If you aren’t familiar with this totally cool system, check out sonos.com). We’ve never seen any evidence of interference between these two wireless networks, or our wireless phone sets either.
HP TOOLS AVAILABLE ON ALL 3 PC’s: HPU
UPDATE 5.003.001.001 (reporting everything up-to-date); HPHDU 3.1.0.17; HPPDU 5.0.0.015 and HPNDU 4.3.0.002.
SYMPTOMS: The 6500A Plus installs quickly and easliy, and connects wirelessly just fine during installation. But sometime over the next hour (usually less), it disconnects and won’t print from PC applications. Sometimes the application puts up an “Unable to communicate with printer” screen, even though the PC usually thinks the printer is “ready”. Other times, the PC thinks the printer is offline (but printers don’t have “offline” buttons anymore!). Often, if you just leave everything alone, the 6500A will somehow reconnect and print out the spooled file 5-30 MINUTES later. So it does usually seem to be able to recover given some time, but that doesn’t always fit our schedule! Occasionally, turning the wireless radio on the printer off and back on will fix it right away. But usually, you have to power the printer completely off, and then back on. As far as we know, that always fixes it…..until the next disconnect a few minutes later!
PREVIOUSLY TRIED: After reading some of HP’s wireless network support websites, I manually assigned a fixed IP address to this printer. It didn’t seem to matter; according to the wireless network test report, it still logs disconnects at the rate of one per hour, and all the failure symptoms were the same.
We also dabbled a bit with setting this printer as “trusted” to the Firewall, but that didn’t seem to matter either.
Next, we connected the printer via Ethernet. The printer immediately started to work, even though it had just been in its “failed” state over the wireless connection. As far as we know, it never failed while connected via Ethernet. This seems to point to a purely wireless hardware/firmware problem on the printer itself.
Late last year, I tried two different chat sessions about this with the inter-continental AIO support teams, each one lasting several hours. Unfortunately, none of their optimistic solution scripts seemed to fit our problem. They both seemed determined to reconfigure the 6500A as a TCP/IP printer, which of course worked fine initially, just like everything else. At this point, they would understandably want to close the chat. But 20-30 minutes later, we could no longer print to it. During the second chat, they got into one of our PC’s remotely and effectively turned off the spooler (by selecting “Print Directly” or something like that). After that, all was well again (as usual) UNTIL the printer disconnected, at which time attempting to print from that PC would HANG the application (since the spooler was no longer buffering) and eventually hang the whole PC. One giant leap backwards. That’s when I gave up on the multi-hour chat sessions.
The three diagnostic utilities (HDU, PDU, NDU) have been tried over and over. When the printer is in its disconnected state, the DU’s usually don’t detect the 6500A at all, or if they do detect it, they are unable to fix anything. Frankly, it’s easier to just power the printer off (which takes about a minute) and power the printer back on (which takes more than a minute) and then wait for the spooler to kick in (usually about 30 seconds). BUT WE DON’T CONSIDER THAT A SOLUTION!!
B.L.A.B. (Bottom Line At Bottom): We have used up nearly the entire black ink cartridge and at least a ream of paper troubleshooting this brand new printer, to no avail. This printer is useless to us unless it can maintain a wireless connection reliably. Please help!
Thanks –
Bob and Jane
(Note: we have an appointment from about 11:20 am EDT – 1 pm EDT, 8:20 am PDT till about 10 am PDT)

I bought the Officejet 6500A Plus about one month and have experienced the very same problem. I tried to remedy this problem following suggestions in a number of different posts (static IP, router, firewalls etc), all to no avail. Last week I called support. The support I received by the tech over several hours and different days for a week was very good. However none of his suggestions corrected the connection issue. After today's recommended fix failed, he advised HP is aware of this issue with the 6500 and other affected printers. He claimed HP was working on a firmware upgrade. He did not know when the update would be provided. The tech also claimed HP acknowledged this problem in a written announcement. He agreed to email the announcement to me. I haven't received it. This has been the only problem I've had with the 6500

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