Trouble with wifi

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i have a US Robotics wireless router and a USR wireless pcmcia card for my
laptop. The laptop has been working wireless with no problesm for months but
in the last few days i can no longer access the internet.

my card still connects to the router, gets an ip and i can browse other
computers on my network. however when i try to use IE or even firefox, the
webpage never comes up. it says cant find hostname.

i have flushed dns (ipconfig /flushdns) to no avail. this is my daughters
computer so i suspected spyware and did scans and still no go.

any ideas???
 
i have a US Robotics wireless router and a USR wireless pcmcia card for my
laptop. The laptop has been working wireless with no problesm for months but
in the last few days i can no longer access the internet.

my card still connects to the router, gets an ip and i can browse other
computers on my network. however when i try to use IE or even firefox, the
webpage never comes up. it says cant find hostname.

i have flushed dns (ipconfig /flushdns) to no avail. this is my daughters
computer so i suspected spyware and did scans and still no go.

any ideas???
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Are you running any kind of third party firewall? Perhaps a setting
there is preventing your laptop from accessing the Internet.
 
i have a US Robotics wireless router and a USR wireless pcmcia card for my
laptop. The laptop has been working wireless with no problesm for months but
in the last few days i can no longer access the internet.

my card still connects to the router, gets an ip and i can browse other
computers on my network. however when i try to use IE or even firefox, the
webpage never comes up. it says cant find hostname.

i have flushed dns (ipconfig /flushdns) to no avail. this is my daughters
computer so i suspected spyware and did scans and still no go.
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On laptop, make sure DNS is pointing to the router. In the router
configuration make sure that the ISP's DNS addresses are either picked
up automatically or set to specific IP addresses so DNS requests are
satisfied. Use NSLOOKUP to test dns.

Peter Hutchison
 
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