Reset could be a small hole in the back of the router, big enough to press
the point of a pen/pencil and hold for 4/5 seconds.
"Robert Blackwell" wrote:
> My moms laptop all of a sudden can't access the network. She says it started
> happening after she tried to add a printer (from another computer on the
> network) but I dont' see how that could have done anything.
>
> When I came over to see what the problem was it appeared as thought it could
> have just been a signal strength issue. It would show the network on the
> list of available wifi networks, when clicking connect you'd get that small
> window with the animated connection stuff. Then it would just do that for
> like 2 minutes and stop and not connect to anything. This was with the
> laptop sitting 5 inches from the router. I tried a system restore from a day
> before when it was working just fine but that didn't help at all. All the
> network settings appeared to be the same anyways.
>
> So,I logged into the router from one of the lan computers changed the wep
> key, logged off, then power cycled the router. I then went to the laptop and
> updated the wep key. turned it off, turned on the router, then turned on the
> laptop again. After booting up, it immediately picked up the network and
> connected but it can't access any other computers or the web.
>
> It looks as if it's not dchp'ing correctly or something. in ipconfig /all is
> it shows an
> autoconfig ip of 169.254.188.109 with a 255.255.0.0 subnet and nothing for
> the gateway.
>
> I also tried assigning an ip manually and while that returned no connection
> problems it just didn't work. I couldn't see any computers on the network
> except my own and I could access the web.
>
> This is one of those cases where I just want to punch the freakin computer.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Please keep in mind I'll have to try anything you suggest later tonight when
> I go back over.
>
>
>
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