I have been having problems getting a wireless connection. My laptop recognizes available wireless networks but it will not connect. Any ideas?
This is just a possibility, Go to Start->Control Panel->Network Connections (In Vista or 7 go to Network and Sharing Center and click on Network adapters on the left side of the window.) Then right click on your wireless adapter and select properties.
Once you have the properties window open, right click on "Internet Protocol or iPv4 (should be something like that)" and select properties again. Make sure the IP Address and DNS settings are set to automatic, and if they are, hit WindowsKey+R and type "cmd" (without the quotes) into the box.
type "ipconfig /release", then once that is done, type "ipconfig /renew" (Both without the quotes).
If that didn't solve your problem, you need to manually fill in the IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and DNS Server's in your wireless adapters properties. If you don't remember where that is, its the last window we went into before when we made sure everything was automatic.
If you don't know what the settings should be, go to someone's machine that is already hooked up to the wireless network and hit WindowsKey+R again and type "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all" and find the Wireless Adapters settings somewhere in the list that was generated, it should tell you all of the settings.
Copy over everything except for the IP address, you should change the digits of the last string to make your IP unique. 192.168.0.xxx <-- These ones.
Hope this helped to solve your problems =)
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Are you able to describe what happens when you try to connect? If you try to connect to an encrypted network such as WAP or WEP does it ask you for the pass phrase or a key?
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