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MovedGoalPosts · 13-07-2006, 19:04

With your laptop, you'll have to enable the inbuilt wireless. You'd probably have to reboot the laptop too when you want to swap from wired to wireless as the wired connection would dominate (it does on my Dell).

I'd suggest initially running the laptop wired, while you then configure the USB wireless desktop. Once you know you have the wireless network running, then you can get your lappy wireless too.

If you have the Netgear setup to allow wireless, any wireless enabled computer in range should detect the network. If you are using a USB wireless adaptor, you're going to need to install that adaptor's software on the USB based PC.

13-07-2006, 19:04	#5
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Wireless Problems With your laptop, you'll have to enable the inbuilt wireless. You'd probably have to reboot the laptop too when you want to swap from wired to wireless as the wired connection would dominate (it does on my Dell). I'd suggest initially running the laptop wired, while you then configure the USB wireless desktop. Once you know you have the wireless network running, then you can get your lappy wireless too. If you have the Netgear setup to allow wireless, any wireless enabled computer in range should detect the network. If you are using a USB wireless adaptor, you're going to need to install that adaptor's software on the USB based PC.