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connecting to the internet on a laptop
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 5:19PM
I've got hold of a old laptop, a compaqq vasario v5000, it needs a bit of extra RAM but otherwise seems quite a good system....though there is one big problem. I can't get the internet working. Neither wireless nor wired. Wireless- I simply can't find the view wireless networks thing which in its normal windows xp place (this computer is xp). Down in the bottom right of the screen there is no wireless networks icon and I can't seem to find it anywhere. Wired- even stranger. I plug it in and it should work right off but it doesn't. I go into control panel> network connections and...there's nothing there. No option to enable or disable a connection. It just plain isn't there. Any ideas?
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 5:40PM
It wouldn't surprise me if there's no wireless built in - you'd be surprised how comparatively recent an innovation wi-fi is for laptops. At a guess, anything older than about five years probably wouldn't have it. I have an XP laptop - an ageing Compaq - for which I had to get a PCMCIA wireless card. (A USB dongle would have done just as well). As for where your wired network is...
So far as your wired network is concerned. Have you checked in Device Manager to see what the status of your network adapter is? It could be that, for example, it's lost its driver, which would need to be reloaded.
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 6:00PM
Maybe try Services and make sure Wlan is set to automatic.
Probably the network Driver needing updated.
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 7:06PM
Vasario? I meant Presario.
It should have integrated wireless apparently. http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00700903.pdf Has a wireless on/off button on it too,
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 8:43PM
Have you checked Device Manager? You may be missing some drivers...
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