How come I cannot connect to the internet from my wireless laptop connection? I am using windows 7.?

Question

For some reason I am unable to connect to the internet via the wireless internet connection from my laptop. When ever I try to search for a wireless connection it says that none if found. What shall I do. I have done the troubleshooting but still it has found nothing. Is it that my wireless connection is off from my laptop and how can I fix that. Thank You

Answer 1

I have the same problem with one of my wireless adapters.

Try using an Ethernet cable to connect the laptop to the router and running an windows update.



Hope fully this will find an updated driver for you other wise a will be a while before an update is out for yours.



You can going to the manufacturers website and downloading drivers there as well.



Best of luck

Answer 2

I've had this problem before, and I don't remember how I solved it. One thing my memory says is that you must also have the same user name and password on each box, but this doesn't sound like that will solve the problem. I would suggest the following: Disconnect your laptops from the internet - physically if necessary - and remove all security devices - disable them if possible rather than uninstalling things. Try AV and firewalls - Windows Firewall and any other firewall that might be installed should be disabled. If that doesn't work, uninstall them also. See if you can connect with a plain vanilla setup - no AV, no firewall. Setup a user and passwords exactly the same, and give them each the same workgroup name. Do a reset of TCP/IP back to its original install state. Note that you'll need to reset your devices up, but that should be simple for you given the things you've been doing above. The instructions for the reset are in a link below. Once everything is disabled/uninstalled, tcpip is reset etc, you might try to see if you can ping each computer. If it works, slowly add things back in. If necessary, make exceptions in each firewall for CoH. You might need to do a bit of research on your firewall(s) to determine how to do this for CoH. If it works with a plain vanilla tcpip stack and stops working when you install or re-enable something, you'll know what the problem is and you'll be able to start figuring out why at that point. Stripping everything out or disabling things is the only thing I can think of, so I hope this is of some help to you.

Answer 3

Try reinstalling your wireless adapter. To do this, click Start > Control Panel > System > Device Manager. Locate your wireless adapter under 'Network adapters', right-click and select 'uninstall'. After it's removed, restart your laptop and Windows 7 will reinstall the adapter. Try searching for wireless networks again to see if the problem is resolved.

Answer 4

this sounds like something many people have had a problem with when upgrading to windows 7 i find if you do a clean install of windows 7 if fixes this. I believe its to do with drivers from vista, windows 7 thinks they work but then they can course problems sometimes, so yeah do a clean install or you could wait for the first service pack as this might fix it