unidentified network.

[moya2t6]

I was on my laptop yesterday and the internet was working fine. But last night when i went to go on it ot wouldnt work. The router reads and unidentified network. I have a belkin router and my laptop is Vista. My computer is xp and the router is working fine on this. What should i do?

[fej2008]

Can you post the IP address of your laptop?

start > all programs > accessories > command prompt > type in IPCONFIG (then post the results..)

Are you on wireless connection or hard wired using your laptop? If wireless, try reconnecting your wireless connection and see if it will solve the problem.

[moya2t6]

Yes i'm using wireless and a Belkin router. When i reconnected it, it connected to the unidentified network and when i troubleshooted it it said a conection might be unplugged but it is all plugged and the wireless is working on the computer.

IP adress is:

Ethernet adapter Local are connection:
Media state : media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix :
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address: 169.254.127.101
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway:

[johnwill]

That appears to indicate you have a bad cable, bad port on the router/switch, or a bad NIC on the machine.

[fej2008]

johnwill is right, you might wanna check the wireless NIC of your machine see if it's installed properly.. You're not getting default gateway so it means the laptop is not seeing your router.

[moya2t6]

dow do i check? And if its not how do i install it?

[moya2t6]

in devise manager under network adapters there is an other unkown device the device status is : windows caanot start this hardware device because its configuration information is incomplete or damaged (code 19)

[vladimirb]

Try re-installing wireless adapter...
Check what make/model is your laptop, visit manufacturers Web Site and download new
Wireless card drivers and install it, but before that un-install old wireless driver...

This might help...

Keep us posted...

[moya2t6]

reinstalled the drivers but its still not workin the IP adress is:

Ethernet adapter Local are connection:
Media state : media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix :
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address: 169.254.251.204
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway:

[vladimirb]

Could you please tell me if you are using Wireless or Wired connection????

[moya2t6]

my router is wired to my computer that im using atm and to the modem. But my laptop is just using wireless.
The Ip adress of my computer is:
Ethernet adapter Local are connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Belkin
IP adress: 192.168.2.5
subnet mask: 225.225.225.0
default gateway: 192.168.2.1

[vladimirb]

Ok, so you can not get IP address via Wireless...
I would try with wired card on your laptop next.
Go and buy cable and wire your laptop to router just to check if your problem is operating system or wireless card perhaps might be bad...

Before you do that, can you tell us what process is occuring while you are trying to get IP address wireleslly from router...
Are you trying to connect to your home network or any other available network, or you cannot see any network at all???

[moya2t6]

in the network and sharing centre my laptop connects to the unidentified network. But that is my router and it wont connect to the internet.

[vladimirb]

Did you make some settings corrections on router lately???

[moya2t6]

in the network and sharing centre my laptop connects to the unidentified network. But that is my router and it wont connect to the internet.

When i connected the router to the laptop with the lead it again connected to the unidentified network but not to the internet and my ip adress is:

wireless Lan adapter Wireless network connection:

connection-specific Dns Suffix:
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address: 169.254.251.204
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway:

Ethernet adapter local area connection:

Connection-specific Dns Suffix :
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address: 169.254.166.87
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway:


This is hopeless :(

[vladimirb]

You are getting an APIPA [Automatic Private IP Addressing] 169.254.x.x
This means that router is not giving you regular private IP address like: 192.168.2.13

As Johnwill said, it could be either bad cable or bad network device on client side...
You did check in Device Manager and you did found out that you have code 19 error which means the device is not properly installed or it is damaged...

That is why I want you to wire laptop directly to the router with cable and check if you will get a proper IP address from the router...
If you get Internet connection with wired connection, your wireless card is damaged because you un-install old drivers and install new ones and the problem still persist...

[moya2t6]

I wired my modem to my laptop with a cable and it still says unidentified network When i looked at the device manager again i realised that the code 19 error was for an other device not a network one.
Is there anything i can do?

[vladimirb]

Yes, you can do. Try to 'Repair' the connection...
This way, laptop will release old IP address and the router will assign a new IP address, hopefully the right one :D

Also, if this code19 issue in Device Manager is not netowrk card related, than could be operating system issue, like bad registry entry or maybe your laptop could be infected...

[moya2t6]

windows network diagnostics said :
plug in a cable to the network adapter "local area connection"
A problem ith your network router or broadband modem might be preventing and internet connection
reset the network adapter "wireless network connection."
Get new Ip settings.
Tried everything still nothing :(

[moya2t6]

also, what could i do for the code 19 issue. I have ESET smart security and malware bytes. I previously had a rootkit problem before but i got that all fixed.