Dell wireless connection

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by N84Christ, Jun 15, 2011.

  1. N84Christ

    N84Christ Private First Class

    I have a dell inspireon 10 mini laptop. I also have 3 other computers that are connected to the wireless modem. How do I get the dell to connect to the wireless internet connection. I search in it and it said there is no connection available. Can anyone give me a heads up. Thanks
     
  2. latinlightning

    latinlightning Private E-2

    What OS do you have installed on your Dell? I

    f possible, go to your Control Panel and then Network Connections and you may have to manually add the network if the laptop is not picking the network from there.
     
  3. N84Christ

    N84Christ Private First Class

    it has windows vista and it is a dell inspirion 1010 pp19s. i ttried to manually connect but to no avail
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    What exactly did you try to do? Did you physically connect a cable between the modem and computer?
     
  5. iain.t

    iain.t MajorGeek

    How many of your machines are connected wirelessly to the router ?? it may be that the router has been set to limit the amount of wireless connections, enter the routers config utility and see if there are any settings in there that could be changed for the wireless connection.

    iain.t :major
     
  6. N84Christ

    N84Christ Private First Class

    if i use a cable i can connect to the internet. i am trying to use the wireless connection. This is not my comp. i am trying to help her out. i went to control> network and tried to connect there
     
  7. iain.t

    iain.t MajorGeek

    Is there a wireless switch on the front or side of the machine?? is it turned on?? or is there a combo key with the aerial pic on ?? like F5 or F6 press Fn + the combo key and it should show on the screen as on or off.

    iain.t :major
     
  8. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    You probably need to check the network setting for the wireless card. In the mean time:

    Open a command prompt and type:
    ipconfig /all

    Post the results.
     

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