Please contact your network administrator or Internet service provider. Hi, my laptop is Compaq Presario C The wireless switch button is not working, and i follow the 3rd step of " Manually Setup a wireless connection " i found that i have only 4 options, i dont have the option which is highliighted in the step 3 " Manually connect to a wireless network ".
My school has a wired and wireless network all computers there are macs. My new Dell pc — using vista- recognizes the wireless network and says it's connected however when I open Internet Explorer it searches for the homepage but then says " Page cannot be displayed". Can anyone tell me why I cannot get on the internet wirelessly?
I cannot get online using the ethernet cable either using Vista. Is it possible to put in the ip address etc manually on Vista? I can do this with my mac and it works fine. I also have an older pc using Windows and I can connect to the network using the ethernet cable.
Why not with Vista? I really need to use my pc at work. I've this kind of problem: Before I could connect easily to wireless internets. With this same password or passphrase my family has manage to connect the other laptops without any problems..
I'm not good with computers… Anyone? Had the same problems? What to do? Been through all of the above procedure, however upon reaching connection option, the "manually connect to a wireless network" is not included. Its see the router as wep protocol, then rejects the connection as failure in authentication.
What is this? Before I call tech support, I thought I'd see if anyone was still active on this thread. The home wifi network did not originally set itself up out of the box and tech support took hours, between Linksys and the subsequent tech support they sent me to.
I tried a fix for our printer going offline and then royally screwed up my settings while trying to recover my wifi connection — without creating a restore point beforehand. One computer is still connected to wifi without problems, though I'm not certain about printing. My computer can only connect to the internet via ethernet and I get printing error messages even if I plug the printer USB though the printer may have another problem.
Atheros that appear on my screen — how to determine which I'm to use if I'm following troubleshooting procedures? Network map — my McAfee security system is once again showing our home network and identifying all as friends 3. I have no internet without the ethernet cable 4. I've powered off the router and modem multiple times.
What will happen when I use a paperclip to reset the router? Will I lose IP addresses, etc? Can the wireless connection info in Control Panel be restored to a default state? Bert : thank you Bert! You just saved Christmas, as resetting it from WEP to WPA Personal allowed my so to connect his new toshiba netbook to my apple airport extreme wireless. No PCs have been able to connect until now, but the macs and ipods had no problem.
Now both can. Hi i have a problem with my Lenovo laptop which is running Xp. Every time i try to connect to my cousins wirless network which is unsecured and has a linksys modem not sure which type it connects perfectly but when i open up the mozilla firefox it says " server not found". My cousins computer connects to the internet fine.
I think the reason why my laptop wont connect because the data encryption setting is disabled but when i click on the authentication tab in properties of this network it says "IEEE I am shocked to see how many folks have had trouble getting their vista laptops to connect with their secured home wireless networks. That is my problem. For a year we had an unsecured wireless network — my pc is running XP, my laptop is running XP, my Tivo network adapter can get on and my husband's vista laptop could.
Then I secured the network. All devices except my husband's vista laptop can get on the network. Changed the ssid and for one night the vista laptop could make a new connection to the network. But next night it couldn't. Have wpa-2 encryption, the linksys router has an option for both tkip and aes, I've tried tkip or aes on the vista laptop — neither works. The vista laptop says it's connected — the signal is strong, but limited access.
This vista laptop can connect with any neighbor's unsecured networks — just not our secure one — even with all settings and passphrase matching and being entered appropriately. I've spent hours this week trying. I poured through this thread and tried a few of the ideas — to no avail. I did unselect ITP6 — but that didn't make a difference. In addition, I have enabled our Mac Address Filtering and have our two wireless computers on there as the only allowed computers.
But from what I am reading elsewhere, anyone can access my wireless network? I know this is not the best security but I thought we had at least something. When I search all available wireless networks in my neighborhood, it does say that our network is a Security-Enabled Network.
Can someone let me know if we are completely exposed right now for anyone to get onto our network? John : Did you hear of a solution? I have the same issue. Thanks Joanne. To fix a problem of not getting connected by wireless above 2 options are suggested everywhere and somehow I don't see both the options in my laptop. I used vista.
My computer does detects networks but I can't connect to it. A message appear it does take longer than usually. I found it quite harder to set up rather than xp. Until today it still unable to connect. Using a desktop alternatively. I have a dell xps laptop with windows vista home premium 32 bit sp1.
John : I have the same problem John, Would appreciate if you got a solution. I just installed a lynksis Valet router. I have checked the "automatically connect.. I have talked to lynkis tewch couple times, they remotely controlled my lkaptop to try to fix but t no avail..
Oh yes, Once i am connected i stay connected just fine but it wont auto-connect…tks! I had the same thing on my laptop with Vista home — I could not see or connect to my wirless router. I wish the Vista-help would have been more helpfull…. When i try to connect to wireless network with the Router, it throwing the error message ha " Unable to Connect to the Networks". I have a Netgear wireless router.
I have four computers hooked up to the router via ethernet wire 2 XP destops and two Vista laptops. When using the wired connection, the Vista laptop can see and access all computers on the network, however, when I switch the laptop to wireless, it only sees the other Vista laptop.
The laptop can access the internet while wired or wireless. I am using WEP security. Can anyone tell me what to do to get the laptop to see the entire network wirelessly? It's an acer laptop using windows vista…. I still can't connect to my wireless router, my dad, my sister even my ps3 that is far away from the router can go online!
I am in serious need of help with my internet connection. Initially I couldn't connect at all- though I had a strong signal strength, typing in the network password was NOT gaining me access to the internet.
All the time, signal strength for my network is very strong and I am able to get on the internet. The problem is that the access fades in and out inexplicably, all the time.
It will work perfectly for a few minutes and then I will get the yellow exclamation mark and the "Limited access" sign, and then it will reconnect and work perfectly again for a few minutes. Literally this happens all the time. It's very frustrating. I don't understand: if I authenticated successfully, why is it fading in and out?
I replaced the mb on a Toshiba ms and now I can't see the wireless card. I recovered the os to factory condition and have the latest driver but I still can't see the card. The card is a Realtek e. Hi, I have vista and I"m trying to add wap2 security to my wireless network. I go to my router's setup page and add a password, which then appears to be saved for all of the wireless networks that are set up on my computer that's what it looks like in "Manage Wireless Networks".
Anyway, my problem is that then when I try to connect, it now asks me for username and password. But I don't know my username. There is nowhere on the router's set-up page where I can specify a username. Is it the name of the wireless network? That's not working. Any ideas on how to find out what my username is? Did you mean ad hoc PC-PC network? Since Windows Vista, 7 it is not able to connect automatically to ad hoc network. There is a couple of articles about how to connect to ad hoc network in Vista, Windows 7.
So I recommend you some specialized tool. Maxidix Wifi Suite, for examle can do it my choice , and everything works as I would like it to. Wish I help you.
This problem had me stumped today for a few hours. After reading this thread and trying a few solutions which didn't pan out, I finally got it fixed. Make sure to keep a note of any keys that you might be using otherwise you will have to regenerate the key and change all your other network devices. Be aware that your current connection to it will be severed — and if that computer usually connects using WPA2 information, Vista will throw up 'settings don't match' errors.
This is okay if you need to use it in the mean time, you can delete the stored security settings and change it to an Open non-encrypted network. Your network should show up as Open. Check that your network is not present, and if it is, delete it this is just clearing any settings which Vista might have saved. Click Apply. Your connection will once again be severed. Your network should appear, if you hover over you should now see WPA2 or your chosen security type.
Double click and hopefully it will now ask you for the security key! I believe this problem is something inherent in Vista, it incorrectly stores the security type of the network and won't refresh that data, and doesn't attempt to ask the network what security it is using when you try to connect.
I need help bad!! I changed from Bellsouth internet for my laptop and my laptop would secure and was not a problem. I switched to charter communications internet and since then I purchased laptops for my children. My childrens laptops are Dell and they use Windows 7, they connect fine secure, but my windows Vista Acer laptop will not connect secure. I live in an apartment and have grown tired of everybody being on my internet and I can barely use it myself due to an influx of people. I called charter and they went through the motions again of trying to secure the internet on my laptop.
What is wrong? Does Bellsouth have a hold on my laptop or what? I am using Netgear from Charter and it accepts my password but it keeps saying the connection has timed out or error due to user. I just don't know what to do. If anyone can help I would be grateful. Everybody else here can see and access my router. But Vista says "cannot find any wireless networks" I don't have the "Manually connect to a wireless Network" option shown above".
Vista used to give the option for a wireless connect. But now the only options are Broadband and Dial Up. What has to be changed to make the wireless option available? Had to reinstall the factory VISTA operating system and now need to get back on a wireless network at home. Any suggestions? Problem: Red Cross in Wireless Lan overview and not able to connect worked before nothing changed.
Hi, I have a toshiba laptop running vista. I can connect to the wireless connection, however it is local only and will not allow me on the internet.
All other laptops are fine apart from two toshiba laptops. Anybody aware of a problem with toshiba that is preventing me from a full connection.
I was in a different house last year and was able to connect to a different wireless connection no problem. I have tried various things from support websites, such as uninstalling and reinstalling drivers but nothing seems to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated as i have spent hours trying to fix this problem. John : Hey John… have the same problem… did you ever find a solution?? I have a unique problem.
But the problem is that the XP cannot access the net. Please HELP by letting me know what are the settings i should have. I have done all the usual suggestions. Thanks in advance Roy. My computer is an hp pavillion dv I have read over all of the post and figured out a few things.
Windows Vista for many ppl here will connect to the secured wireless router but it won't be able to access the internet. I have had the same problem here.
Examples given are for a Linksys router. Refer to your router manual or the router mftr. The default username is left blank and the Linksys default password is "admin" without the quotes. Enter that information. You are now in the router's configuration utility. Your configuration utility may differ slightly from mine.
Click on the Administration link at the top of the page. Enter your new password. Re-enter the password to confirm it and click the Save Settings button at the bottom of the page. The router will restart and present you with the login box again. Leave the username blank and put in your new password to get back into the configuration utility.
Now click on the Wireless link at the top of the page. I suggest that my clients not use their family name as the SSID. For example, you might wish to name your wireless network "CastleAnthrax" or the like.
This is the encryption level you want. If your wireless hardware is older, use WPA. Do not use WEP as that is easily cracked within minutes. Do that and enter a passphrase. For example, you might use the passphrase, "Here be dragons, beware you scurvy dogs! The passphrase is what you will enter on any computers that are allowed to connect to the wireless network.
At this point, your router is configured and if the computer you were using to configure the router is normally going to connect wirelessly, disconnect the ethernet cable and the computer's wireless feature should see your new network. Enter the passphrase you created exactly as you wrote it with all capitalization and punctuation to join the network and start surfing.
Networking Here are general network troubleshooting steps. Better yet, how about out on the veranda? There was a time when this flexibility was a luxury reserved for the brave souls who threaded cables behind their walls to set up an ethernet network—and had mastered the arcane secrets of networking kung fu. I cover three different options here, based on the three established home networking standards: HomePNA 2.
Setting up a home network will go much more smoothly if you prepare a few things beforehand, no matter which option you choose.
At the bare minimum, a home network lets you print from any computer and access files from other computers without leaving your chair. Remember: Most, but not all, printers can be shared. To find out if your printer can be shared, open Control Panel and select Printers.
Right-click your printer icon, and choose Properties. The only problem with this setup is that the computer connected to the Internet the server or host has to be turned on to share its connection with the other computers the clients.
If this is inconvenient, there is a solution: You can use a gateway with a built-in router—a piece of hardware that handles Internet traffic a little like a switchboard.
This device is commonly referred to simply as a router. You should also consider encryption. Any determined person can gain access to an unencrypted network without too much trouble.
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