Settin up a nex laptop

[j-kid]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

Dahjah, man yuh ah confused everybaddi tuhdey!

Yuh neva tell wi if yuh hav ethernet cyad inna di laptop? Wi deh yah ah assume yuh hav wan in deh. Is it part ah di motherboard or a separate cyad or yuh noh si none in deh?

[Morpheous]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

Originally posted by King dahjah:
[qb] I DO but dis laptop as mi tink mi did seh b4 won't be wireless.
It will be hooked tuh router chroo ethernet.
Mi only need one wireless an mi deh pan ee now.
But mi cyaan get de ting fe load or find the router.

in connections there is no

LAN or High Speed Internet, as there is in the one i'm using now.
OR even a bridged connection. [/qb]

I know this is jamaican website but when you ask technical questions I suggest you use plain english just so we can understand what it is you really asking and hence we will know how to help you. No offence intended [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[1] Anyway it sounds as though you are saying that you have a laptop that is not for wireless connection. Though it has the capability to do so

or

[2] You have some other computer that has wireless capability which you are now using but you want to connect it to your existing router.

If that is the case then your wireless computer you are using now which you want to connect to your existing router won't work. You only have two solutions and you have to choose one.

A wireless network router solution I mention earlier above or a stanard network router connection - (your existing one). You cannot mix the two. You cannot connect a wireless computer via a standard cable setup or visa versa.

If you want your computer/laptop that is using wireless but you now want to switch connection to your existing standard router then, you have to get a stanard cable/wire ethernet card plugged in as J-KId suggests for the computer in question. If you don't have one buy one and get the setup disk that comes with it to install the drivers.

if you already have the ethernet card with telephone wire running from the back of your computer/laptop to your existing router but you don't have the drivers for it then go to windows update via a different connection other than your existing router network. Plug you computer straight to your dialup phone socket if you have to.

On windows update website there are normally drivers provided that will enable windows XP to downlaod and install missing/supported drivers for most periferals it dectects is connected to your machine at the time of the update process; be it scanner, printer, modem, mouse etc. etc.

So if you can't get your router to see your machine or visa versa, try windows update first and choose select optional hardware update and select optional software update to download any necessary drivers, then follow the instructions J-Kid provided you with earlier to make sure all is well.

[j-kid]

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There is a couple walk-around techniques to mix wireless and direct-wired hook-up. However we need more clarity on your ethernet card setup. You have not answered my questions above. My daughter uses a wireless laptop at school and when she comes home she plugs in direct-connect with hard wire to my router. One thing though her setup has two ethernet cards. The wired one is integrated into the motherboard and she has another wireless card that plugs into the PMCIA slot. There is also another option using a plugged in 802.11 stick to the USB port. Again I need more information on your ethernet hardware that is included or not included on your laptop in order to tell you what potential option to use in order to get you hard wired.

[Morpheous]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

Originally posted by J-kid:
[qb] There is a couple walk-around techniques to mix wireless and direct-wired hook-up. However we need more clarity on your ethernet card setup. You have not answered my questions above. My daughter uses a wireless laptop at school and when she comes home she plugs in direct-connect with hard wire to my router. One thing though her setup has two ethernet cards. The wired one is integrated into the motherboard and she has another wireless card that plugs into the PMCIA slot. There is also another option using a plugged in 802.11 stick to the USB port. Again I need more information on your ethernet hardware that is included or not included on your laptop in order to tell you what potential option to use in order to get you hard wired. [/qb]

Just as I thought... He would have to choose one option or the other in terms of modem connection.

When connecting to his existing router he needs to use the non-wireless modem connection and when he wants to connect via his wireless router he has to use the appropriate wireless modem.

I have a broadband modem and a medem blaster (dial-up). When I want to send a fax via my PC I use the dial-up modem blaster and when I want to connect to the internet I use the broadband modem.

A similar situation can apply depending if I want to choose a laser printer or a bubble-jet printer depending on the document I am printing out.

However it seem that king dahjah wants to connect to his existing router using the wireless modem . If that is the case then it will never work! He has to install and configure a separate modem for his existing router connection and use that exclusively for that existing router connection and use the wireless modem when he desires to connect via the wireless option.

King dahjah seems to be confusing everyone...

[dahjah]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

J-kid mi did tink yuh wouldan kno seh yuh help mi set up de ting een de fuss place.
Yuh nuh membah seh yuh help mi wide router which is wireless, Den yuh help fe hook mi new laptop tuh de ting an it cyan now duh as yuh dawtah.
Dat a nuh de problem.
I have tree laptops pan de router, two a wukk no problem.
De tird one now is as mi seh.
But guess wah mi realize?
Dat de ethernet cyaad neh ha de drivah dem een deh, suh mi a guh try a ting an get back tuh unno likkle more.

Tanx Kia, Morpheus an J-kid.

mi wi mek yuh kno how it guh.

[dahjah]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

Originally posted by Morpheous:
[qb] [King dahjah seems to be confusing everyone... [/qb]

A nuh mi unno jus confuse [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[kia027]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

Originally posted by J-kid:
[qb] My daughter uses a wireless laptop at school and when she comes home she plugs in direct-connect with hard wire to my router. [/qb]

U daughter [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] mi neva know seh u so ole [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[kia027]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

Dahjah
Check for the ethernet card be it built in or if external(put one in) and then check the drivers.

As for having to do something special when u want to connect to ethernet or not, I dont have that problem.. I do both without having to set any configuration.

[dahjah]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

YEs K ia a did dat, de external Ethernet cyaad neh ha de drivah dem een deh.

Everyting kriss now,

Tanx one an all, an sarry fe de mass confusion.

[kia027]

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ok I missed the last sentence. Sayka mi call u attention to de actual prablem mi would like mi prize.. .. a screen fi separate de 2 pickney dem and block out de naise inna de back seat please. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[j-kid]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

Originally posted by King dahjah:
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Originally posted by Morpheous:
[qb] [King dahjah seems to be confusing everyone... [/qb]

A nuh mi unno jus confuse [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/qb]

[img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Yuh smart! Yuh learn Bill Gates school of electronic repair, rule number one real fast didnt yuh?! "If all else fails, an yuh noh sure, jus blame di victim." [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

[Morpheous]

Re: Settin up a nex laptop

Originally posted by J-kid:
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Originally posted by King dahjah:
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Originally posted by Morpheous:
[qb] [King dahjah seems to be confusing everyone... [/qb]

A nuh mi unno jus confuse [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/qb]

[img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Yuh smart! Yuh learn Bill Gates school of electronic repair, rule number one real fast didnt yuh?! "If all else fails, an yuh noh sure, jus blame di victim." [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [/qb]

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King Dahjah read the answers and realise him mistake already but him won't admit it. No way him can connect to his existing router if:

1. him no have no hardwire modem
2. him nuh have no driver fi him hardwire modem
3. him a try use a wireless modem to connect to a standard non-wireless LAN via him router.

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