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I need some basic step-by-step directions as I ain't got a clue what I am doing.

I have a laptop computer with a wireless card in it. I am having problems connecting wirelessly to my router and so I have been advised to connect wired to get the settings.

I don't have an Ethernet port on my laptop and so I have bought a USB-to-Ethernet adaptop. So my set-up is now basically USB/Ethernet connection to my router.

Now how do I go about getting the settings and connecting to the internet? I have opened IE6 but to no avail. What settings do I have to change?

As I said, I am unsure as to what I am doing here and so would appreciate all the help I can get.

PS: On a side note, I am using a Belkin wireless PMACIA (or whatever its called) card and I have read somewhere that if you use Windows to configure your connection, this causes problems. Nonetheless, I cannot seem to find more info on this and so, cannot rectify this problem.

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Jumbo's Chippy
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Can you ping the router? (Open a command prompt and 'ping [ip address of router]'

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Jumbo's Chippy

You can ping the router from a wired or (wireless) connection. May I suggest you get on the phone with the manufactures of your wireless equipment and let them talk/walk you through the setup of you equipment.

That's what they are there for is for you to use -- get it over.

Duane :)

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Duane Arnold

I have tried to ping the router wirelessly but to no avail.

Any ideas?

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Jumbo's Chippy

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