Hi all,

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 ?

thanks
Robert Fernando
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gillett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Problems connecting a advent 7102 laptop to a linksys
wrt545g router.


> On 17 Apr 2006 at 23:02, Robert Fernando wrote:
>
> > Two problems with a linksys wrt545g router.
> >
> > Q1
>
> >  I am unable to browse to certain websites, which use to work, before
> > I plugged the cable modem into the linksys router, and connected the
> > router to the PC via Ethernet. sites like www.bbc.co.uk load, but
> > sites like www.pcadvisor.co.uk do not load. ping www.pcadvisor.co.uk
> > shows that the remote PC is active.
> > What setting on the linksys router could be wrong.
> > Cable modem , NTL UK ISP. Windows 2000 Service pack 4
>
>   The "ping" command doesn't just tell you that the remote PC is up, it
> verifies that suitable routing is in place to get packets from machine A
to
> machine B and back again.  (The fact that any site works at all tends to
> suggest that it's not a basic routing/address setting on the router.)
>   About the only new element you've introduced is a router feature called
> NAT (Network Address Translation).  There are a few kinds of things that
> some sites *might* do that aren't compatible with NAT.  (Small routers
like
> this have become common enough for most sites to shy away from approaches
> that conflict with NAT.)
>   You may have to get to pcadvisor from another machine and ask them for
> assistance.
>
> > Q2
> >  I set up the Linksys Router and enabled it's wireless settings. No
> > security for initial testing.
> >  However when I use the wireless adapter on the advent 7102 laptop I
> > do not get a indication of the linksys router being an available
> > wireless network, that can be connected to. And no other networks if
> > there are any in my local neighbourhood show up.
> >  What would cause the laptop not to see the router ?
> > laptop runs windows XP home edition sp2
> > desktop / router windows 2000 sp4
>
>   How likely is it that there are *no* other wireless networks in your
> neighborhood?  I'm wondering if the wireless in the laptop actually works.
>
>   It occurred to me to wonder if the wireless network support built into
the
> laptop might be of the 802.11a variety, incompatible with the 802.11b/g
> standard offered by the router.  I am unable to find any information about
> the wireless capabilities of this laptop model beyond "yes, it has
wireless"
> -- that's simply not sufficient.  Is there any literature that came with
it
> giving more details?
>
> David Gillett
>
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