Advent 7088 Laptop problem

[Halcyon]

Yep, it's me again.....this time trying to sort out another Laptop.
It's an Advent 7088 AMD Semptron 2800.

I've been trying to get it to pick up the wireless network and when I go and do browse for Wireless networks it does pick it up and shows full strength bars on the signal display. So it is connecting.

However, when I then go and open up the browser, it does not detect any connection to the Internet and no pages will load.
I've checked the interent options in the browser and all is set normally.

When I right click the wireless connection it said something about not fully operating succesively so I attempted to do a "Repair connection" and it then goes to get rid of the surrent IP and renew it. This is where it then fails and tells me it can not get an IP.

So how it is showing it can pick up the network I dont know.

Anyone know how I can sort this out to get it to allow me to use the Internet.

Many thanks.

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I was browsing a silimilar thread I found by searching, and someone mentioned something to do with Mac Address filtering.....To check the Mac ID of the wireless card was being allowed to access the network.
Would this be worth doing and if so how do you do it ?

Also, Xaccers mentioned that you can try changing the wireless connection so it is controlled by windows and not the Intel drivers. Anyone know how to do this and if its worth trying ?

Thankyou

[choward58]

Hi i had a similar problem with my vaio to fix it you need to go to control panel>sytem>hardware>device manager>network adpaters then right click on your wireless network device>uninstall> then it should say are you sure you want to do this click yes. then if it doesnt re install automaticcaly go to control panel n then add new hardware

this should fix it
plz let me kno if it does

[Halcyon]

I won't have access to the laptop until on Monday but I'l check that out.
Thanks.
If anyone else has any more info, keep it coming.

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I won't have access to the laptop until on Monday but I'l check that out.
Thanks.
If anyone else has any more info, keep it coming.

With choward 58's suggestion if you still cant get it to obtain an IP Address right click on the connection and select repair. Or if that doesnt work, go to Start >>> Run, and type cmd and hit enter, then type in this order

ipconfig /release (press enter)
ipconfig /renew (press enter)
ipconfig /registerdns (press enter)

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Yep, it's me again.....this time trying to sort out another Laptop.
It's an Advent 7088 AMD Semptron 2800.

I've been trying to get it to pick up the wireless network and when I go and do browse for Wireless networks it does pick it up and shows full strength bars on the signal display. So it is connecting.

However, when I then go and open up the browser, it does not detect any connection to the Internet and no pages will load.
I've checked the interent options in the browser and all is set normally.

When I right click the wireless connection it said something about not fully operating succesively so I attempted to do a "Repair connection" and it then goes to get rid of the surrent IP and renew it. This is where it then fails and tells me it can not get an IP.

So how it is showing it can pick up the network I dont know.

Anyone know how I can sort this out to get it to allow me to use the Internet.

Quite simply, sending of network SSIDs and other data does NOT require for TCP/IP to be present.

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Many thanks.

---------- Post added at 11:59 ---------- Previous post was at 11:54 ----------

I was browsing a silimilar thread I found by searching, and someone mentioned something to do with Mac Address filtering.....To check the Mac ID of the wireless card was being allowed to access the network.
Would this be worth doing and if so how do you do it ?

Yes it would be worth checking, you can find this out by checking in the configuration of the Router itself

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Also, Xaccers mentioned that you can try changing the wireless connection so it is controlled by windows and not the Intel drivers. Anyone know how to do this and if its worth trying ?

Thankyou

It could be worth trying, you would do this from the Properties page of the Wireless Network Connection.