my laptop does not show wireless icon

26 Oct 2007 9:48 PM

Tractor girl

can anyone help me please?

I recently bought my son a laptop which needed access to the internet. I
bought a Netgear WGR614 v7 wireless router and set it up to my desktop pc. My
son's laptop was then quickly added to the network and is working fine. I
thought it a good idea to connect my older Acer laptop to the network and
took it to a computer repair outlet to have a 54mpbs PCMCIA Wireless lan
adapter installed. Now I have got it back I thought I would be able to
connect to my network easily but windows does not show a wireless connection
in network tasks. I am a total novice to this, can anyone tell me step by
step how to connect? I visited Netgears support site and it showed a small
flashing icon which should show in the bottom right corner but my laptop does
not show it. any help appreciated.

26 Oct 2007 10:59 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
There can be many reasons for it, so you would have to do some reading and
become you own expert.
The content of these pages can serve as a general mini tutorial.
My Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
Wireless Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.htm
Jack (MVP-Networking).l

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"Tractor girl" <Tractorg***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> can anyone help me please?
>
> I recently bought my son a laptop which needed access to the internet. I
> bought a Netgear WGR614 v7 wireless router and set it up to my desktop pc.
> My
> son's laptop was then quickly added to the network and is working fine. I
> thought it a good idea to connect my older Acer laptop to the network and
> took it to a computer repair outlet to have a 54mpbs PCMCIA Wireless lan
> adapter installed. Now I have got it back I thought I would be able to
> connect to my network easily but windows does not show a wireless
> connection
> in network tasks. I am a total novice to this, can anyone tell me step by
> step how to connect? I visited Netgears support site and it showed a
> small
> flashing icon which should show in the bottom right corner but my laptop
> does
> not show it. any help appreciated.
>
>