Claudia: I have had this problem as well. Go to your wireless icon and double click it and make certain you have the correct wireless connection selected. With wireless, your laptop may pick up your neighbors rather than your linsky in which case you have a connection but it won't work. Another thing I did to solve it is to check weather your wireless connection is secure or not. If it is not secure, you may need to check a box that says "allow me to connect to the selected wireless connection even though it is not secure" and hit "apply" and then it would work. You may have to reboot. Hope this helps, Chris G. Christopher Blauvelt Chief Operating Officer Innovara, Inc. 21 Pray Street Amherst, MA. 01002 Tel: 413-549-5888 Fax: 413-549-0666 E-mail: Chris at innovara.com Web Site: www.innovara.com -----Original Message----- From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of josh Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:40 AM To: 'Claudia Gere' Cc: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Subject: RE: [Hidden-tech] Wireless connection problems ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must be counted to post . ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. Claudia, When the OS says that it's "connected" to the Wireless network, that just means that it has established a basic radio connection with the wifi network. Think of it as the same sort of "connection" that would be made via a piece of patch cable. A physical interlink that doesn't really concern itself with the various logical layers of whats going on with the network data transmission (Okay, that's a rather hamfisted analogy...) If you haven't set up any sort of security with your wireless system, right off the top of my head, it sounds like you might be having some sort of IP address issue. Usually, this address should either be coded directly into your network settings, or your computer should be receiving it from a DHCP server on the network somewhere. (Most routers these days come with a DHCP chip.) I HAVE heard that sometimes DHCP stuff doesn't work so well over wireless, and certainly, I've seen situations a network couldn't get a dynamic address over the link, but if I put a static IP address into the computer, it was able to communicate just fine over the wireless link. One thing you could try right away is doing a power cycle on your wireless access point and/or router (often, the wireless access point and the router are the same piece of equipment.) Then try rebooting your PC, and seeing if that resolves the issue. That, or try putting in a static address as an alternate configuration on your TCPIP settings for the wifi card. (You don't want to do it to the primary configuration, because that will make traveling with the laptop from network to network harder.) Again, this is all assuming that you don't have any sort of security settings on your network, or that you might have picked up from another network. That is a whole other kettle of fish. My company troubleshoots these sorts of things, and we make housecalls. If you are interested, please drop me an email. Regardless, I hope at least some of my letter is of use to you. -J Josh Mintzer, MCSA Arete Computer Consulting, Inc Quality. Excellence. Virtue B: 413-584-8543 C: 413-218-7869 -----Original Message----- From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Claudia Gere Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:26 PM To: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Cc: Claudia at claudiagereco.com Subject: [Hidden-tech] Wireless connection problems ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must be counted to post . ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. I am having a problem connecting to a wireless network connection. I am operating a Windows XP laptop that uses a Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual Ban WLAN Mini-PCI card. When I click on the Wireless Network Connection icon in the task bar, my system says and shows that I am connected, but when I try to connect to Internet Explorer I don't get connected and MS Office Outlook says it can't find the server. So even though it says I'm connected, I can't do anything. The Wireless Network says it is configured for open access and is set up in my system to connect automatically. I connected wirelessly just yesterday to another system just by clicking connect and I ran diagnostics on the PCI card so I don't think it's a hardware or driver problem. Does anyone know if I need to change any settings or anything else I can try? Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Claudia _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. 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