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I have a gateway laptop that is less than 2 yrs old. I have recently had intermitant problems connecting to the internet wirelessly. however now my NIC card is not even visible now. In the hardware, through the control panel I still see my wireless, but no network card. I cannot connect hardwired or wirelessly. I have a 2nd laptop that connects perfectly. Help, not sure what else to look for.
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Actually this is a hard drive fault most likely, or a faulty had drive. If you don't have a recovery disk you are going to have to start the machine and try to do a recovery to boot repair. You can usually access this with F10 or F12, not really sure on a gateway.
Remove the cables from the gateway router to the switch to leave only the uplink cable or connection to your telephone socket. Test connectivity by plugging your laptop or computer directly in to the gateway router and test web access using an Ethernet cable. Your laptop /computer may need to be rebooted for new ip. If ok reattach the unmanaged switch a retry by attaching the Ethernet cable to one of the ports on the switch. If ok, this limits the problem to the access point. The main problem is that you have two layer 3 devices connected together by a layer 2 switch. The solution would be to retain the configuration on the gateway if all ok. Change the access point to a different sub net and SSID to the gateway router. If you can shut down the broadcasting from the gateway as all WLAN will be done through the access point. Ensure that DHCP and DNS is switched on, on the gateway router. All computers should be configured to use the gateway router address as this will allow the gateway to provide routing across the network.
check the configuration of your laptop. use another laptop to check the wireless configuration if its working in another laptop...check all possible setting of your laptop..make it fault all if needed
on your computer goto start - run - type services.msc and press enter.goto wireless zero configuration and enable it. now goto start - run type msconfig and press enter then goto startup and uncheck your netgear adapter.press apply and OK or close. restart your computer.goto start - control panel - network connection then right click wireless network connection and view available wireless networks.select your network and connect.once it`s connected goto start - run - .cmd - enter..type ipconfig..you`ll get ip address,subnet mask,default gateway.copy it. now right click wireless network connection again and click on properties and double click on internet protocol(TCP/IP).type in the IP address,subnet mask,default gateway.in DNS server address type the default gateway in primary DNS and in secondary 4.2.2.2. your connection won`t drop after this. this will fix your problem...
I think you need to specify the gateway address in your new laptop. For that you have to know the gateway address ( i,e. the IP address of your boardband router/ adsl modem.).
First, go to your old laptop, right click on My Network Places, Right click on the wireless lan connection and select properties. Click on Internet Protocol(TCP/IP) and click properties.
Take a note of the Default gateway.
Now come to your new laptop, use the procedure mentioned above to open the Internet Protocol(TCP/IP) Properties box. Type in the Default gateway address which you have noted earlier. Click ok twice. Now see if you can access the internet. If you can't then let me know the IP address configuration of both your old and new laptops.
If not done allready, setup the lan IP address and default gateway in win98 Click MyComputer-ControlPanel-Network-Double Click TCP/IP Adapter for your 3com device-insert LAN info for IP Adress-subnet mask, Gateway and your Internet service providors DNS Addresses info Tab's (3x different Tabs "IP Adress" "Gateway" "DNS Configuration")
IP Adress will be at least one number higher than your gateway address and not allready being used by other PC's on your network and gateway address will same as your router interface address subnet mask will be the same for all PC's on your network.
For 3com and Netgear routers LAN setup is usually
Gateway = 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
IP Adress = 192.168.1.10(choose alternate number than 10 if allready used by another PC on your network, try to use round numbers, must be a number higher than 1)
Once all info is entered click OK (this may trigger a database info update message and task)now your LAN is setup and ready to talk to your network
Restart PC and try browsing again. May possibly require reinstallation of the TCP/IP client (you double clicked this to setup your LAN in Win98) or reinstallation of the IIS(Internet Information Services)component found in, Add/Remove Programs-Add/Remove windows components and then try LAN setup again if this does not work first time round
can i use a usb ethernet as a work around?
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