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This thing is driving me crazy. I apppreciate all of you
who gave me suggestions last time, but none have seemed
to work. I have an HP laptop with an integrated b/g
wireless card. I bought the MN-700, mostly because of
the good reviews and how everyone said it was 'so easy to
set up' out of the box. I have to say, I am not finding
this to tbe the case. I do not have a desktop computer
to set this up with; my only computer at home is this
laptop. I set up the base station as stated in the start
manual, and it connected just fine, found the base
station, programmed just fine, etc. Now, as I understand
it, I should be able to unplug the blue ethernet cable
used during setup that was connecting the base station
and my computer. After doing this and then turning on
the wireless function (my HP has a dedicated button to
turn the wireless on and off), I would expect to be able
to connect to the internet. It tells me it has found my
network by name (and even one of my neighbor's networks).
I have no printers or other computers to connect to. I
thought I did everything right, but when I unplug the
blue ethernet cable, it tells me that a network cable is
unplugged and I have not internet connection. I thought
I had the problem licked when I cloned the MAC address,
but to no avail. Please, can one of you very intelligent
and knowledgeable wireless network people out there help
me? It's driving me crazy!!! Thanks in advance for any
and all suggestions.
This thing is driving me crazy. I apppreciate all of you
who gave me suggestions last time, but none have seemed
to work. I have an HP laptop with an integrated b/g
wireless card. I bought the MN-700, mostly because of
the good reviews and how everyone said it was 'so easy to
set up' out of the box. I have to say, I am not finding
this to tbe the case. I do not have a desktop computer
to set this up with; my only computer at home is this
laptop. I set up the base station as stated in the start
manual, and it connected just fine, found the base
station, programmed just fine, etc. Now, as I understand
it, I should be able to unplug the blue ethernet cable
used during setup that was connecting the base station
and my computer. After doing this and then turning on
the wireless function (my HP has a dedicated button to
turn the wireless on and off), I would expect to be able
to connect to the internet. It tells me it has found my
network by name (and even one of my neighbor's networks).
I have no printers or other computers to connect to. I
thought I did everything right, but when I unplug the
blue ethernet cable, it tells me that a network cable is
unplugged and I have not internet connection. I thought
I had the problem licked when I cloned the MAC address,
but to no avail. Please, can one of you very intelligent
and knowledgeable wireless network people out there help
me? It's driving me crazy!!! Thanks in advance for any
and all suggestions.