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Originally Posted by luv
Everything in the house is wireless. The tower is not directly hooked up either.
If it is not seeing my laptop, what do I need to do? I've already tried reconnecting the router and rebooting my machine. That typically works, but it hasn't this time.
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Well bummer. That would have helped with troubleshooting. But oh well.
What you need to do is difficult to answer at this point. It could be a whole host of different things. The wireless adapter in the laptop might need a driver update. The laptop's TCP/IP settings might be configured for a static IP, instead of configured for DHCP. The wireless adapter might be configured to only work on certain wireless speeds, and the router is configured to a different speed setting. The router might be configured to only allow access for certain devices, set by MAC address. It could have some sort of virus or malware that might have changed settings to use a Proxy server. That's just a short list.
Get home and check the IP address, and see what is being assigned. That's the first step.
Has this Gateway laptop ever worked on your wireless network? Has it ever worked on any wireless network? What OS is it running?