Hi. i dont really own it, my sister just asked me to fix or to have a look on it. i guess the story goes like, they were watching a broadcast, a long broadcast thru the notebook and right after that they werent able to connect it anymore. so it seems that it was working before but lost sometime after watching it. anyways, its windows xp and wireless adapter is built-in. i tried everything that i know of but i still cant figure out whats wrong. i checked the manager and it says its working properly, i click on troubleshoot but nothing happens. i sometimes see the wireless icon and it says acquiring network address. at one time it can see the wireless router when i check the ip details, which is netgear, but not when i click on properties of the wireless icon, but most of the time it doesnt. and when i click on refresh network list i still cant see the network. please help....
Make sure the LAN is not set to use any IP address. It should be on DHCP ok. Some times, the WLAN has to be configured to use IP address, so get the addresses of the Wireless Router: IP, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and Pref DNS and assign these to the WLAN. Only the IP addr should be different by adding one or two to the Router's IP ok. Restart the pc and it will get connected. Good luck
1. Try unplugging the wireless router for 30 seconds and plugging it back in.
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2. If that does not resolve the issue go to My Network Places, Right Click, Properties ... on the icon that represents the wireless connection, right click, select Disable, once the device is disabled, right click again and Enable.
The second set of instructions are assuming you have Windows XP
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by the way, i just found out that when i connect the notebook directly to the modem, the notebook isnt getting an ip address from the modem, it just said "network cable is unplugged" or something like that. so both wireless and wired LAN cant connect to the internet. its running on windows xp.
thanks. by the way, just found out, that even the wired LAN cant connect to the internet. i connceted the notebook directly to the modem and its not getting any IP address from the modem. so both wired and wirless cant connect to the internet. i checked everything and it looks like everything OK.
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