WRT110 Wireless Router

[jediwarrior]

Hi all,
I am helping someone setup a Linksys wireless router (WRT110) to their laptop which has Windows Vista. He has the internet comming into the house and into a modem. From the modem a cable is plugged from the modem to the 'Internet' connection on back of the router. From the router another cable is connected from the 1 port in back of the router and then into the ethernet port in back of the laptop. I was able to set it up and access the internet, but remove the cable from the laptop and it says their is no internet access available. Why wouldn't it work? I checked the device manager and everything is ok in there. No question marks or exclamation marks anywhere. Everything is clean.
How do I proceed from here to get wireless? I'm using IE to connect to the internet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jediwarrion

 

[dberg35]

For starters make sure the wireless card is turned on. If it is then check the wireless program and make sure radio is enabled and also check the site monitor in the program to see it is seeing the router. If you are still having issues then contact Linksys.

 

[jediwarrior]

Hi dberg35,
I checked out all those things, and everything seemed to be in order, but what i did find out is that we must have had a bad cable, because when we were loading the software on the computer, it would tell us there is no cable connected, so I changed out the cable reloaded the software, went into the linksys page using the web browser, and was able to set it up ok. I does seem to be working fine now.
Hard to believe the cable was bad, as it was the cable that came with the router,but things do happen.
Thanks for your input, I appreciate your helping me to look into areas I wouldn't have otherwise.

Jediwarrior

 

[dberg35]

good to hear and your welcome.