Help! Trying to get a Wi-Fi laptop to connect to the internet through a BT home hub.

[jak731]

Same as above. Trying to get it working for a friend.

Their is already a computer hooked up to the hub through a ethernet cable which is working fine, their is also a wireless phone connected to the hub through a"BT Fusion Adapter" via another ethernet cable connected to the hub, so both ethernet ports are occupied. The hub also has a Wi-Fi style arial and has wireless writen on it (the fusion adapter also has one of these arials).

The laptop is Wi-Fi enabled but when it searches for a wirelss network it cannot find any in range, no matter how close it is to the hub. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[jak731]

The light on the HH is happily flashing away and their is no obvious switch on the laptop (laptop is an "Ultinote M9000"). The laptop at first had the WLAN 802.11g Network Adapter disabled, I enabled it and restarted the laptop but the problem remaines.

 

[jak731]

D'oh, I am n00b with laptops, Fn+F2 enabled the Wi-Fi, even a symbol on the key. Thanks Tk7.

Found the network straight away, asked for a key which I found on the back of the HH.

Still got a problem though! After entering the key I get a "Limited or no connectivity" message in network connections even with high signal strength (still can't use internet). After trying to repair the connection windows says it cannot renew the IP adress. Not really had this problem before, so not sure what to do.