guys come on now.... channels?

i cant connect to the wifi at college but can anywhere else thus far... i have vista home on a toshiba a135.... atheros card and wtf ... the only advice i get is basically in a foreign language...."you may need to make sure your laptop and the network are on the same channel" HOW!!!! i am not A GENIUS hense asking for help the first time....how do i change the channel on my laptop to that of a public network when i dont know the channel of the network or how to change the channel on my laptop. i dont have access to alter the network settings so pls for the love of wireless networking help me solve this crisis i have home work not getting done.

 

Best thing to do is to contact your IT department at college to get the correct connection information. There may be security or authentication protocols on the wireless connection that you need to have.
Alternatively, Start | Control Panel | System and Maintenance | System | Device Manager (Device Manager is located under "Tasks" in the left hand column of the "System" menu).
Expand network adapters | Right click wireless adapter | choose Properties | scroll for channel selection and change to each channel and try to connect. There are 11 channels available.
Hope this helps.

 

Compare your settings lbest directed you to too those of one your your schoolmates.

 

ok i went there in my laptop and it gave me like 7 tabs and the only one that aloowed scrolling did not have the word channel in it.... it had things like bus type guid,capabilities,legacy bus type,enumerator,bus number,adress,power data .... were talkin like 20 things and each have a discription when clicked but thinking perhaps it was under a different name i looked to see if any had options 1-11 and no none did pls keep tryin to help

 

i didn't know that you could actually set a channel on your adapter? i know on your router you can designate a channel, and/or enable channel scanning (something like that). how are you trying to connect? are you using your wireless adapter s/w (software), or are you using the windows s/w to connect? you also need to make sure you have the correct p/w (password), when you try to connect to a secure network. can you take some screenshots for us, so we can see?

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=26019 <-- Taking Screenshots

if you take some screenshots, i want to see wireless networks, and how/what you are trying to connect to (we don't want to see your pass, etc), and any error messages. also, anything else that you think might help. g/l, sos

 

The channel selection should be on the Advanced tab under properties.
May be under a heading such as IBSS.
(@ sosaman - I've got 2 different Linksys wireless adapters and both are capable of channel selection.)