New laptop wireless wont connect?

[Unwell Cat]

I have a new laptop and for the lift of me I cannot get the wireless to connect. It's running Vista business finds and connects to the wireless network but then complains about limited connectivity.

I have bought two laptops running vista business home from work and they connect fine. The only difference I can see is the new laptop has different wireless options for IPV6, IPV4 and WPA Personal, WPA Personal 2 etc whereas the ones that work only list TCPIP and WPA, WPA PSK.

Anybody?

[NemesiS]

Reinstall the driver for the wireless adapter. Get the latest version off the manufacturers website.

I have had this issue with a few Toshibas in the last few months. They just connect locally or connect with limited connectivity. The driver solved it. If it doesn't, post back.

[kernow]

Can you ping google.com ? maybe its firewalling DNS or DHCP?

[NemesiS]

Can you ping google.com ? maybe its firewalling DNS or DHCP?

Unlikely. The default MS firewall allows outside connections and DNS and DHCP would only come into force once connection to the internet through the router has been established.

Also his other lappys are connecting fine, so it aint the router.

[Unwell Cat]

Reinstall the driver for the wireless adapter. Get the latest version off the manufacturers website.

I have had this issue with a few Toshibas in the last few months. They just connect locally or connect with limited connectivity. The driver solved it. If it doesn't, post back.

I'll try this tomorrow, thanks.

[AlonzoUK]

Try setting a static IP address etc for your network on the laptop and see if you can connect to the Internet after this.

I had a Toshiba laptop running Vista recently which wouldn't connect to my netgear dg834xx router on wireless or wired network and it appeared to be an issue with the way the machine requested a DHCP address. Still don't know what the issue is.

[Unwell Cat]

Fixed the issue. It was some weird configuration issue between the router settings and the new IPV4 / IPV6 settings on Vista.