Wireless laptop connection

[AledJ]

Last night I tried to connect my father's laptop, to the wireless network in the house. So got the physical address from doing the ipconfig /all , and found the one I needed 'Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection'. The other two addresses were for the LAN and the bluetooth. So I open the router settings and add the new mac address, add it and then closed the page. Went over to the laptop which on a sticker says 802.11 a/b/c, draft n . I double checked in network connections for a wireless card, and sure enough there it is. So I then double click the wireless icon bottom right, and search for the home network. Double click to connect and then enter the network key (twice). Thinking this was all sorted, and that all was ok........I was very wrong. It came up with the limited connectivity for some reason, so I clicked repaid but that failed to do anything.

Now I know the mac address was correct as there were a number of zeros 0 and not the letter o (i'm right in thinking that a 0 with a line diagonal in it is a zero?) I checked the router page again and it was correct. Next I checked the properties for the connection on the laptop, security was wpa2-psk and there was a box with AES (i think). So all looked ok and I rebooted the laptop but still no connection! The odd thing was that the router was showing a wireless connection, as the wireless light on it was lit.

I'm not sure what else to try with this ?!? There is no wireless on/off switch on the laptop, and once i entered the network key it tried to connect.

I did try the whole thing with my laptop..... removed the network and set it up from scratch. I was able to find the network, enter my network key, and get internet access.

This really has me stumped :| (Sorry for the long post)

[burble]

The router having a lit wireless light normally means that the wireless interface is enabled, not that there is a client connected to it.

MAC address filtering is a complete waste of time (if someone can get around the WPA2 encryption then it'll take seconds to negate the MAC filtering) so I'd be inclined to disable it completely and see if that makes any difference.

[ChaosSystem]

Is your father's laptop set for Dynamic IP? Is there any IP address when you ran ipconfig /all

[AledJ]

The router having a lit wireless light normally means that the wireless interface is enabled, not that there is a client connected to it.

MAC address filtering is a complete waste of time (if someone can get around the WPA2 encryption then it'll take seconds to negate the MAC filtering) so I'd be inclined to disable it completely and see if that makes any difference.

I have a Belkin router and the wireless light will only come on when there is a connection, otherwise it is not come on at all. Not going to disable the mac filtering since I two other laptop connect fine.

Is your father's laptop set for Dynamic IP? Is there any IP address when you ran ipconfig /all

I think you could be right! I did think last night before I went to bed about whether, the wireless card was set for automatic ip in its settings. I don't think I saw an ip address when I first got the mac address. I'll try the automatic ip setting and see what happens.


Thanks guys

[burble]

If it is giving you the message about limited connectivity then you'll probably find it as a 169.254.x.x IP address which Windows has 'helpfully' assigned to itself.

[AledJ]

If it is giving you the message about limited connectivity then you'll probably find it as a 169.254.x.x IP address which Windows has 'helpfully' assigned to itself.

I'm half sure there was no ip address when i did the ipconfig /all. But when I then checked to make sure the mac address was correct there was an ip address. I'll check the next time he brings the laptop home.

Thanks again