Can't find any network,

[dumna]

Hi
I got an old laptop (Gateway with window XP Pro, and I cannot get it to connect to my home network, other laptop works fine. showing the following connections
Local area connection
network cable unplugged with a RED x
Realtek RTL8139/810x

1394 Connection
connected
1394 net adapter

wireless network connection
Not connected Red X
intel(R) Pro/wireless 22008G
Please help, Thanx

 

[DelJo63]

first, use the Device Mgr to disable the 1394 device:: that's a Firewire connection, not ethernet.

then WIRE a connection to your router and get that running.

we'll address WiFi once WIRED is working

 

[dumna]

Hi there, again
Thanxs, but i got it to work, signal excellent. I disabled the local area connection. and the wireless
network adapter is connected. I do not what I did . I could not find a switch to turn on so I clicked on keybd button marked en and pressed F2 and I set IP address manually, but when I went back to check the IP address I found it changed to obtain ip address automatically. However my other laptop has a very good signal and the one that I just connected has an excellent signal, and both are the same distance from the host PC, ????