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Hi
I've just bought a new laptop (Dell Inspiron-sorry i don't know the model of
my wireless card) and I am trying to connect it to my Orange wireless router
without success. The latop uses windows vista home premium. I have a desktop
PC with windows xp connected to the router through the ethernet cable and an
xbox 360 which connects wirelessly - both work fine. I can get my laptop to
connect using the ethernet cable but not wirelessly.
Using the connect to a network box my laptop picks up my router, i can
select it and click on connect. It then asks me to enter the security key.
I enter the WEP key shown on my router but then it comes back with 'windows
cannot connect to network'. Ive made sure my wireless card is on (using Fn
F2 keys) and I know my router works wirelessly as my xbox works wirelessly.
I tried calling Orange who went through numerous ways of trying to connect
but none worked - the guy admitted he had limited knowledge of vista but
thought it could be a conflict between the vista way of connecting and the
dell card so sugggested calling dell. We did that and they could not get it
to work and said it was a problem with the router and that it could not
connect multiple devices, which i do not believe as the manual for the orange
router shows multiple devices and orange themselves did not think that was
the preoblem.
Basically i don't know what to do and am left with a laptop which if i want
to use on the net still needs to be used at my desk.
Sorry for the long post but i thought the more information i could give the
better. I'd really appreciate it if anybody had any ideas.
Thanks
Neil
I've just bought a new laptop (Dell Inspiron-sorry i don't know the model of
my wireless card) and I am trying to connect it to my Orange wireless router
without success. The latop uses windows vista home premium. I have a desktop
PC with windows xp connected to the router through the ethernet cable and an
xbox 360 which connects wirelessly - both work fine. I can get my laptop to
connect using the ethernet cable but not wirelessly.
Using the connect to a network box my laptop picks up my router, i can
select it and click on connect. It then asks me to enter the security key.
I enter the WEP key shown on my router but then it comes back with 'windows
cannot connect to network'. Ive made sure my wireless card is on (using Fn
F2 keys) and I know my router works wirelessly as my xbox works wirelessly.
I tried calling Orange who went through numerous ways of trying to connect
but none worked - the guy admitted he had limited knowledge of vista but
thought it could be a conflict between the vista way of connecting and the
dell card so sugggested calling dell. We did that and they could not get it
to work and said it was a problem with the router and that it could not
connect multiple devices, which i do not believe as the manual for the orange
router shows multiple devices and orange themselves did not think that was
the preoblem.
Basically i don't know what to do and am left with a laptop which if i want
to use on the net still needs to be used at my desk.
Sorry for the long post but i thought the more information i could give the
better. I'd really appreciate it if anybody had any ideas.
Thanks
Neil