hi hope someone can help me out iv been at this pretty much all day and last night. i got a laptop yesterday and i already have a desktop with a dsl connection and i want to share that connection with my laptop using a wireless router i got (linksys WRT54G) but no matter what i do i can not get it working. i tried the cd i got with the router and all went fine but my laptop (Packard Bell - intel centrino - xp) can not find the netwok. im no good at this sorta this so any help would be great. hope someone might know what i can do cheers lol.
does your laptop have wifi built into it?? read this link http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/209917
Most wireless routers need to be set up to broadcast a signal for your laptop to see the network. I have noticed by default, most companies have this turned off, so it is not broadcasting it SSID. Should be in the settings of the router. JT
it was acualy really easy i just have never done it before all i had to do was change the ip of the wireless router as it was the same as my modem, make sure all the cabels wer connected ok then set up the wireless network just the ssid and the wep encyption after that just enable the wireless on my laptop search for the network enter the wep key and connet. so so easy.
Good Job! I myself had a similar experience two days back. Luckily for you the problem wasn't the router. I waisted three days trying to setup the router to share an internet connection. It turns out there was an incompatibility with the router and DSL. I returned and bought a different brand router and it works great.
ya it worked out ok in the end but i still got problem im getting nat errors with bittorrent and cant search using dc++, i have all my ports set up proper and my windows firewall is off and my mcafee firewall is set up ok. iv tried everything and cant get it working aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh bloody head wreaking thats what it is. cheers lads.
