wifi enabled, no internet

letsbehonest

I have fitted a wifi adapter to my daughters laptop I can establish a connection with good signal strength but it will not connect to the internet when I click on to IE. Some advise please.

Forris

Does the Wi-Fi require a security key and password? If you haven't entered this, it will present the symptoms you describe.

hpuse

just right click the network connection(wifi) and select repair. Wait till it finishes and then reboot the before giving it a try.

After reboot, try accessing the internet. If it still doesn't work,

(Assuming win XP )
just click start--> run type 'cmd' without quotes
then type
'ping yahoo.com' without quotes.

Do you see a reply like pasted below.

Pinging yahoo.com [206.190.60.37] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=52
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=52
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=52
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=106ms TTL=52
Ping statistics for 206.190.60.37:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 104ms, Maximum = 115ms, Average = 109ms

Lets continue...from here

spike274

Two things spring to mind:

1. Have you enabled wi-fi on your laptop. (You might need to hold the blue "Fn" key and then press one of the "F" numbered keyed - does one have an icon which looks like an ariel mast on it?).

2. Your network card could be disabled if your laptop battery is/or has been low. Plug it in if you can and then go to "Control Panel", "Network Connections" and right click your internet connection and then click "Enable".

Hope the above helps.

aliEnRIK

I thought all laptops had built in wireless?

Goto DEVICE MANAGER. Are there any yellow exclamation marks next to any devices?

In fact ~ thinking about it. Id guess the signal your seeing IS the inbuilt one and the switch on your laptop is switched to off? (most laptops have a switch to switch on and off the wireless facility)

letsbehonest

The laptop in question is a Dell Inspiron 1000 and is not wfi enabled.
there is no switch,
the ping does not work,
in device manager there are three yellow question marks logged under "other devices" (1) multimedia audio controller, (2) PCI modem, (3) vedeo controller (vga compatable)
the O/S is XP home and is a new clean installation.and there is nothing installed on it yet.
regards

aliEnRIK

letsbehonest wrote: »

The laptop in question is a Dell Inspiron 1000 and is not wfi enabled.
there is no switch,
the ping does not work,
in device manager there are three yellow question marks logged under "other devices" (1) multimedia audio controller, (2) PCI modem, (3) vedeo controller (vga compatable)
the O/S is XP home and is a new clean installation.and there is nothing installed on it yet.
regards

Then clearly you need the driver disc/s that came with the machine

diable

Is the wifi adaptor installed inside the laptop or is it one that plugs into the USB port, if so what make is it and have you loaded the drivers for the adaptor?

angel00079

letsbehonest wrote: »

I have fitted a wifi adapter to my daughters laptop I can establish a connection with good signal strength but it will not connect to the internet when I click on to IE. Some advise please.

You mentioned you can't connect to the Internet, but can you connect to your wireless network?

Is it showing up as an attached device in Device Manger under Network Connections? (Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager)

letsbehonest

I can connect to my wireless network, the adapter is a plug in wireless Lan Pcmcia adapter made by Broadcom 802.11g drivers loaded

macman

Check your firewall settings.