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    network probs

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by sadafbahaza, Jul 4, 2005.

  1. sadafbahaza

    sadafbahaza Notebook Consultant

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    hello again i have a netgear router, cable internet, connected to ma computer and i recently bought a toshiba m40 laptop. can someone tell me how i shud get it workn with the internet...is not working despite all ma failed tries to connect
     
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    sadafbahaza Notebook Consultant

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    sorry bout double post
     
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    sadafbahaza Notebook Consultant

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    my mind is seriously going to fry...i tried 50 times to connect to the internet and IT IS NOT WORKn...i have a netgear router that is connected to ma two computers....everythn perfect there...but my laptop...i tried wirelessly connecting to network nothn i tried to take out the cables from one of ma computers and put it to ma laptop nothn>...i NEED TO GO on the internet and ma laptop isnt delivering...
     
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  4. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    Sadafbahaza,

    I've merged your 2 posts together as there is no need to double post on the same issue.

    Regarding your problem, it looks like it could be a MAC Filtering problem. Did you enable MAC Filtering on your router? If so, that would limit what systems would be able to connect to your router. From your working systems, goto your routers config page and check to see if you have any MAC addresses in the MAC Filtering page. If so, add your LAN & WLAN MAC addresses to the list.

    If this doesn't work, check to see how many IP address your router is dishing out at one time, maybe there's not enough IP addresses being assigned. Just increase the number and your set.

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Jul 6, 2005
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    Lapnix Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is your system recognizing the broadcasted wireless network name? Is it configured to broadcast? If not then you wont get a response from the router and you will need to manually configure the wireless network settings. Default is broadcast though... is your system recognizing your wireless network to begin with?

    Make sure your your network cards are enabled and configured to use DHCP if you are trying to connect via a network cable. If it is, then go to a dos prompt (start->run->"cmd") then type in "ipconfig /renew".

    I can help you out but we need to find out how you setup your wireless router and wireless nic, how did you try to configure them?
     
    Lapnix, Jul 7, 2005
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