On 19 Apr 2006 at 18:39, Robert Fernando wrote:

> It appears that the wireless card on the advent 7102 laptop is not powered
> up when, the machine is switched on and a button the laptop is used to
> activate it.
> Once the wireless card is activated, a number of routers showed up.
> 
> I was then able to connect to my router, however I am unable to browse/ view
> the desktop PC connected to the router( using an Ethernet cable) via network
> neighbourhood on the laptop.
> 
> Do I need to change some of the setting on the linksys wrt545g router to do
> this, and does zonealarm on the desktop PC I am trying to access need to be
> changed also ?

  Some wireless routers may have a feature to prevent wireless clients from 
talking to each other, but I don't think that applies to wired clients.  
This is more likely to be a Windows or ZA issue than a router configuration.

David Gillett

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