Question by : Please help with wireless internet (Picture Inside)?
-Unless it inside the laptop itself, I do not have a wireless card all I had to do up until now was turn my laptop on and it was automaticly connected to the internet.

-Please do not tell me to “check the connection with a phone.” I do not have a phone that has internet.

-I have tried unplugging both my router and my modem and restarting my router 5-8 times now

-It tells me that I am connected, but I am not.

-The Internet on the Desktop works just fine, so I know there isn’t a blackout or whatever in my area.

-I cannot repair the connection, when I do it beeps and tells me it needs to connect to the internet.

-I do have it so automaticly pick up the IP adress, but when I type ipconfig into the laptop I get this error message: “An internal error occured: The Request is not supported.”

-PICTURE: http://img188.yfrog.com/i/helpr.png/

The “IP ADRESS MUST BE SPECIFIED” Comes up when I ping on my laptop.

Router: Linksys
Router Name: WRT54G
System: Windows XP Professtional

Best answer:

Answer by MB800800
Yes you have a wireless “card”. It’s just a chip on the motherboard in many modern laptops.

This issue has come up a couple of times on various discussion sites. The general consensus was that the tcp/ip “stack” has become corrupt. Fixing it can be complex and requires a lot of specific knowlege.

The easier approach is generally just to blow it away and let it re-install. You do that by removing the device (wireless card) in device manager.

Go to control panel/system/device manager and “uninstall” the wireless card. Then boot the machine. The card will re-install. As long as it worked previously, the driver on you machine should be acceptable. Then go to network connection and make sure the wireless card is set to accept dhcp (autoconfigure).

I don’t think the re-install of the hardware will delete the connection manager information where your WEP key (if any) was stored. You should just be able to connect as before.

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