How to add a laptop to network

Azagoth

Azagoth

Azagoth

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I want to add a laptop to my wireless network, yet for some reason I can't assign the laptop it's own IP address. If I go into the connection properties and manually assign it via the IPv4 option it won't access the internet. I then have to use the "Automatically assign IP address" option which keeps assigning the damn thing 192.168.1.101 even though my PS3 is downstairs and has aleady been given that address. As you can imagine, this istantly boots the PS3 off the network.

I'm running a Linksys WAG160N wired into this PC (running XP) and the PS3 which is downstairs and wirelessly connected. The laptop is running Vista and is connecting wirelessly too.

Any ideas how to do this, it should be the simplest thing yet it just wont work.
 
When manually assigning, are you giving it the correct gateway and dhcp servers?

Reassign manually and try pinging an external website
 
joey1211 said:
When manually assigning, are you giving it the correct gateway and dhcp servers?

Reassign manually and try pinging an external website
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I assume you mean DNS servers :)

Make sure you have manually set the subnet mask correct for the network, make sure the IP isn't duplicated on another device, make sure the gateway and DNS servers are correct and that the router doesn't have the ports forwarded to a particular IP

- Pea0n
 
Yeah, it's got correct info but when I hover over the little network icon it says "Local Only".

If I knock it back to "automatically acquire IP" then it's just fine.
 
When it says "local only" can you do the following -->

Start --> run --> cmd --> ipconfig /all

and paste the output in here please?

- Pea0n
 
Tell you what, you can slap me now.

Looks like I'd typed just one digit wrong when entering the OpenDNS server IP addresses. Damn my tired eyes and fingers.
 
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