DSL/Wireless laptop not communicating?

Daemon&Diesel · 08-24-2008, 02:46 PM

Hello! I just recently installed Verizon DSL using a Westell 7500 modem. Everything works great. My husband has a wireless setup at his shop so he brought home the laptop to try out our new wireless router. The laptop is a Sony Vaio, running xp, using a Linksys WPC54G v3 card. I'm not familiar with wireless too much, but on the laptop it shows that it is connected to Verizon and the strength as being excellent, but when I try to launch the internet, I get an error message saying it cant find the server...what am I missing?

**johnwill** · 08-24-2008, 07:08 PM

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following command:

Note that there is a space before the /ALL, but there is NOT a space after the / in the following command.

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

08-24-2008, 02:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
Daemon&Diesel Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1 OS: xp	DSL/Wireless laptop not communicating? Hello! I just recently installed Verizon DSL using a Westell 7500 modem. Everything works great. My husband has a wireless setup at his shop so he brought home the laptop to try out our new wireless router. The laptop is a Sony Vaio, running xp, using a Linksys WPC54G v3 card. I'm not familiar with wireless too much, but on the laptop it shows that it is connected to Verizon and the strength as being excellent, but when I try to launch the internet, I get an error message saying it cant find the server...what am I missing?

08-24-2008, 07:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 41,940 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	Re: DSL/Wireless laptop not communicating? Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt: In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following command: Note that there is a space before the /ALL, but there is NOT* a space after the / in the following command.* IPCONFIG /ALL Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter. Paste the results in a message here. If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here. __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience