another posting of someone that cannot connect to wireless

Hello:

My wife's laptop here at our house all of a sudden cannot connect to our
Linksys wireless. My laptop can. (Thank goodness, since I'm the one that
works from home and pays our bills!)

Anyway, we do not have her laptop's manual and it is at least a four-year
old Satelite laptop with XP sp2. So, there is no tech support there like
there is for my Dell.

She can connect to the internet if she connects directly into the Linksys.

We tried all of the usual steps to fix: Restoring XP to a point before this
happened, doing ipconfig /release, renew, rebooting the network and the
laptop, and disabling and reenabling the wireless adapter through Device
Manager.

When we go to Wireless Networking on her laptop, it says "no networks found
within range".

Any ideas? Could it be that the wireless adapter is just "gone" and we need
to go to Best Buy and get a new one?

Thanks!

childofthe1980s

childofthe1980s

"childofthe1980s" <> wrote in
message news:C051EB96-DCF1-4831-B664-...
> Hello:
>
> My wife's laptop here at our house all of a sudden cannot connect to our
> Linksys wireless. My laptop can. (Thank goodness, since I'm the one that
> works from home and pays our bills!)
>
> Anyway, we do not have her laptop's manual and it is at least a four-year
> old Satelite laptop with XP sp2. So, there is no tech support there like
> there is for my Dell.
>
> She can connect to the internet if she connects directly into the Linksys.
>
> We tried all of the usual steps to fix: Restoring XP to a point before
> this
> happened, doing ipconfig /release, renew, rebooting the network and the
> laptop, and disabling and reenabling the wireless adapter through Device
> Manager.
>
> When we go to Wireless Networking on her laptop, it says "no networks
> found
> within range".
>
> Any ideas? Could it be that the wireless adapter is just "gone" and we
> need
> to go to Best Buy and get a new one?
>
> Thanks!
>
> childofthe1980s


aa
You might want to make sure that your wifes wireless or wireless antenna is
turned on, on some satelite laptops it is a switch on the side of the
computer.

John Lee Brown

John Lee:

Thank you! You're right! The Satelite has a switch that was turned off.
Once I turned it back on, all was good! That worked!!!!

Speaking of good, you're "it"!!!!!!

Thank you so much!!!!

childofthe1980s

"John Lee Brown" wrote:

>
> "childofthe1980s" <> wrote in
> message news:C051EB96-DCF1-4831-B664-...
> > Hello:
> >
> > My wife's laptop here at our house all of a sudden cannot connect to our
> > Linksys wireless. My laptop can. (Thank goodness, since I'm the one that
> > works from home and pays our bills!)
> >
> > Anyway, we do not have her laptop's manual and it is at least a four-year
> > old Satelite laptop with XP sp2. So, there is no tech support there like
> > there is for my Dell.
> >
> > She can connect to the internet if she connects directly into the Linksys.
> >
> > We tried all of the usual steps to fix: Restoring XP to a point before
> > this
> > happened, doing ipconfig /release, renew, rebooting the network and the
> > laptop, and disabling and reenabling the wireless adapter through Device
> > Manager.
> >
> > When we go to Wireless Networking on her laptop, it says "no networks
> > found
> > within range".
> >
> > Any ideas? Could it be that the wireless adapter is just "gone" and we
> > need
> > to go to Best Buy and get a new one?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > childofthe1980s
>
>
> aa
> You might want to make sure that your wifes wireless or wireless antenna is
> turned on, on some satelite laptops it is a switch on the side of the
> computer.
>

childofthe1980s

"childofthe1980s" <> wrote in
message news:AA945E21-4C6E-4E3F-A70D-...
> John Lee:
>
> Thank you! You're right! The Satelite has a switch that was turned off.
> Once I turned it back on, all was good! That worked!!!!
>
> Speaking of good, you're "it"!!!!!!
>
> Thank you so much!!!!
>
> childofthe1980s
>
> "John Lee Brown" wrote:
>
>>
>> "childofthe1980s" <> wrote in
>> message news:C051EB96-DCF1-4831-B664-...
>> > Hello:
>> >
>> > My wife's laptop here at our house all of a sudden cannot connect to
>> > our
>> > Linksys wireless. My laptop can. (Thank goodness, since I'm the one
>> > that
>> > works from home and pays our bills!)
>> >
>> > Anyway, we do not have her laptop's manual and it is at least a
>> > four-year
>> > old Satelite laptop with XP sp2. So, there is no tech support there
>> > like
>> > there is for my Dell.
>> >
>> > She can connect to the internet if she connects directly into the
>> > Linksys.
>> >
>> > We tried all of the usual steps to fix: Restoring XP to a point before
>> > this
>> > happened, doing ipconfig /release, renew, rebooting the network and the
>> > laptop, and disabling and reenabling the wireless adapter through
>> > Device
>> > Manager.
>> >
>> > When we go to Wireless Networking on her laptop, it says "no networks
>> > found
>> > within range".
>> >
>> > Any ideas? Could it be that the wireless adapter is just "gone" and we
>> > need
>> > to go to Best Buy and get a new one?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > childofthe1980s
>>
>>
>> aa
>> You might want to make sure that your wifes wireless or wireless antenna
>> is
>> turned on, on some satelite laptops it is a switch on the side of the
>> computer.
>>


You are entirely welcome.

John Lee Brown