Problems with wireless.

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First thing to do is run the networking wizard. Oddly enough just that alone
will solve several issues that occur when attempting to set a network up by
hand.

If problems persist then on one of the machines open a command prompt run
the command

ipconfig /all

and copy and paste the results back here. To copy the text portion of a
command prompt, right click anywhere in the command prompt and select
'mark'. Move the blinking cursor to one corner of the block to be copied
then while holding down shift, use the arrow keys to highlight the block.
Hit enter to copy and you can then use the paste function as usual in any
other window.

--
Walter Clayton
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.


"Happy" <happy@trial.ca> wrote in message
news:VmrXd.16460$oh4.605727@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> Laptop shows as being connected to our wireless network, signal strength
> either very good, or excellent. However, we cannot use anything on the
> net: acts like it's not connected at all- try to access home page, or any
> other page, get the preverbal "this page cannot be displayed".
> Is this the spot to ask this, or is there a better newsgroup I should be
> on for this?
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Followed all these steps, a couple times, no change. It seems, as I said
that, the connection is recognized, but that's it. In fact, we were even
able to use messenger a bit earlier, but no access to Email or IE.
"Walter Clayton" <w-claytonNO@SPmvpsAM.org> wrote in message
news:efNpxJEJFHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> First thing to do is run the networking wizard. Oddly enough just that
> alone will solve several issues that occur when attempting to set a
> network up by hand.
>
> If problems persist then on one of the machines open a command prompt run
> the command
>
> ipconfig /all
>
> and copy and paste the results back here. To copy the text portion of a
> command prompt, right click anywhere in the command prompt and select
> 'mark'. Move the blinking cursor to one corner of the block to be copied
> then while holding down shift, use the arrow keys to highlight the block.
> Hit enter to copy and you can then use the paste function as usual in any
> other window.
>
> --
> Walter Clayton
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>
>
> "Happy" <happy@trial.ca> wrote in message
> news:VmrXd.16460$oh4.605727@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>> Laptop shows as being connected to our wireless network, signal strength
>> either very good, or excellent. However, we cannot use anything on the
>> net: acts like it's not connected at all- try to access home page, or any
>> other page, get the preverbal "this page cannot be displayed".
>> Is this the spot to ask this, or is there a better newsgroup I should be
>> on for this?
>>
>>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

My son has taken the laptop away until Thurs. to write a term paper
(offline!) I'll check the ipconfig again when he comes back.
"Walter Clayton" <w-claytonNO@SPmvpsAM.org> wrote in message
newsb$1QwFJFHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> ...and the results of the ipconfig run are?
>
> I need to see what IP addresses and DNS server addresses you're leasing.
> If nothing else hand write the information down if you can't use floppy to
> sneaker-net the data to a 'net capable machine.
>
> --
> Walter Clayton
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>
>
> "Happy" <happy@trial.ca> wrote in message
> news:GguXd.16613$oh4.608385@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>> Followed all these steps, a couple times, no change. It seems, as I said
>> that, the connection is recognized, but that's it. In fact, we were even
>> able to use messenger a bit earlier, but no access to Email or IE.
>> "Walter Clayton" <w-claytonNO@SPmvpsAM.org> wrote in message
>> news:efNpxJEJFHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> First thing to do is run the networking wizard. Oddly enough just that
>>> alone will solve several issues that occur when attempting to set a
>>> network up by hand.
>>>
>>> If problems persist then on one of the machines open a command prompt
>>> run the command
>>>
>>> ipconfig /all
>>>
>>> and copy and paste the results back here. To copy the text portion of a
>>> command prompt, right click anywhere in the command prompt and select
>>> 'mark'. Move the blinking cursor to one corner of the block to be copied
>>> then while holding down shift, use the arrow keys to highlight the
>>> block. Hit enter to copy and you can then use the paste function as
>>> usual in any other window.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Walter Clayton
>>> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Happy" <happy@trial.ca> wrote in message
>>> news:VmrXd.16460$oh4.605727@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>>> Laptop shows as being connected to our wireless network, signal
>>>> strength either very good, or excellent. However, we cannot use
>>>> anything on the net: acts like it's not connected at all- try to access
>>>> home page, or any other page, get the preverbal "this page cannot be
>>>> displayed".
>>>> Is this the spot to ask this, or is there a better newsgroup I should
>>>> be on for this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>