wireless netowork troubles

comp builder · 22 Jul 2007 at 20:26

i am trying to install a wireless netowkr on a friends laptop but it dosn't seem to want to work lol
He has a BT homehub (which is already connected wirelessly with his sisters laptop). He is using a linksys wireless usb network adapter
thannks

Nebzor · 22 Jul 2007 at 20:37

You may want to give a couple more details?

Also, try the networking forum

comp builder · 22 Jul 2007 at 22:35

yes sorry i just thought about that lol

erm....
well it came with a disc (obviously) but the disc dosn't want to boot no matter how i try to boot it (through control panel, through 'run', through 'my computer' etc)

I tried creating a wireless network but that dosn't show anything once it's created (nothing in the internet/network connections folder either)

fobose · 22 Jul 2007 at 22:51

When you plug the USB wifi adapter in, does it come up with "found new hardware"? If so put the CD in, plug the adapter in and direct the hardware wizard to the CD drive and see if that works.

If you already have a wireless network you shouldn't need to create one, once the drivers have been installed you just need to go in to the "view wireless networks" if you right click on the wireless network icon in the system tray and select your BT hub's network.

If the CD still doesn't work, type the model number of the adapter in to google and download the drivers on to the computers hard drive, then run it that way.

comp builder · 23 Jul 2007 at 10:15

when you plug the adapter in it does nothing and we have tried everything to get the CD going. The only problem is how do i google it if he hasn't got the internet. Would i work if i googled it from my comp and saved it to a disc then put it on his?

TomTomTom · 23 Jul 2007 at 11:59

comp builder said:
when you plug the adapter in it does nothing and we have tried everything to get the CD going. The only problem is how do i google it if he hasn't got the internet. Would i work if i googled it from my comp and saved it to a disc then put it on his?

Um yes, if I understand you correctly, it doesn't matter how the drivers find their way onto the comp. I always get drivers for new hardware from the net anyway, cause they'll be newer than what's on the CD.

Once running, the lappy should see the SSID. And implement whatever encryption might be in use. Don't forget that the wireless router might have a MAC address access list in effect, in which case you'd need to add the MAC address of the USB adapter to that list (one way to find that: ipconfig /all from command prompt; and you might see it on a label).

Admiral Huddy · 23 Jul 2007 at 12:06

XP or Vista?

WEP or WPA?

The reason I ask I had the same problem on Vista but not XP. I too have a linksys wireless adpator using the correct drivers etc.. I was using WEP which it apeared not to like very much. Switching to WPA-personal worked a treat

comp builder · 23 Jul 2007 at 13:56

sorted now. I got it installed typed in the ssid and the WEP and it now works

it was on xp by the way

Anyway i now have another problem, i need the graphics driver for the laptop, but being the idiot my mate is he has lost the disc and dosn't know what the make of the graphics card is. I think it's an on-board graphics, but i don't know what make the motherboard is. The laptop is a samsung A10