Laptop Bought from Oz wont pick up wireless router?

[Dansta]

Just been setting up my missus's fam's home network, alls working fine.

The stepdad bought a laptop last week in Oz, one of these new leather ASUS notebooks, wireless was working fine over there, now were back, its not picking up shizzle. And i've tried a few diff networks.

I go to the choose a wireless network page and it doesnt find any...

Any ideas?

 

[TheCake]

Is it using some Asus Wireless software and not Windows mate?

 

[Dansta]

how can i tell fella?

 

[Dansta]

scrap that.... in wireless properties, it has *use windows to configure my wireless network settings* ticked

Any other ideas?

 

[Darren S]

Easiest way m8, is to CAT5 into the wireless router and find out the local network settings with IPCONFIG/ALL - (unless you know the IP & DNS settings already?) Have them at hand and force the wireless NIC with a set that would be compatible.

Apologies if this is telling you stuff that you already know, but something like this:-

• IP address 192.168.1.10
• Primary DNS 192.168.1.254
• Gateway 192.168.1.254

Make sure you disconnect the CAT5 and retry connecting to the router wirelessly. Have you got MAC address filtering enabled on the router? Also, check to see what form of wireless security is setup on the router. Some of the newer WPA forms may not be supported by the Asus.

I don't think the Ozzies use a different 802. protocol over there, but I could be wrong!

D.

 

[Darren S]

LOL! - sounds like you got the easy fix first!!!!

D.

 

[Dansta]

no i havent... i mean it already has that ticked and is still not working... any ideas?

 

[Revels]

Turn it upside down?

 

[dk]

maybe try posting about it here?

http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=3&model=S6F&SLanguage=en-us

someone else is having problems after the laptop goes into hibernate, have you tried clicking repair on the connections?

another possibility is the range of the frequency, different countries have different laws on the range of frequencies that can be used on each band, they have different rules in the US for example, its maybe the case that your router is out of the range it is looking for, thats just a stab in the dark really though as I can't think of anything else it could be really.

 

[Rasclart]

Shouldnt matter Dave

US Apple Macs are fine, and I have encountered several US Toshibas as well

Also try going to Network Connections in Control Panel, Right Click the wireless connection and Disable it and enable it. May kick it into life

As yours is using the Windows method of handling wireless connections, may be worth finding the software for the brand of card on the laptop that handles it and try that.

 

[Dansta]

Cheers Lads, will try this lot tonight...

And revels... i love you.

 

[Dansta]

no luck

 

[Revels]

I love you too.

Did you try my suggestion?

 

[kpowell911]

Turn it upside down?

ROFL

 

[Dansta]

pmsl! i've only foking fixed it... not your solution though revels honey.

 

[Darren S]

It's not been switched off in BIOS, has it? Just thinking if he took the battery out on the flight over here and the BIOS defaults didn't have it enabled?

Ironic really as 15mins ago, this laptop wouldn't work wirelessly. Ended up shutting it down and rebooted it. Worked fine then. That's the first time it's ever done that. :S

When you said you tried it on different networks, was that with different makes & models of wireless router?

D.

 

[dk]

whats the solution then, don't keep us in suspense!!!!!

 

[Dansta]

Darren got it... turns out theres another program that manages the wireless device, and although it showed up, it was however switched off. Prob for the exact reason Darren said. Managed to find out the pain in the ass way to get it back on, which may i say is not straight forward at all, and voila. schweet.... nice thing is... he's actually given me the thing as he was fed up with it. Pretty nice little bit of kit, shame it has windows on it. Very solid. Shame ill have to give it back.