Connecting Laptop to Home Network.

I hope this has not been covered previously but I could not find it if it has.

I have a 3 PC wired home network using a 2Wire 2700HG-E Modem and have just added a wireless laptop.

The icon in the system tray indicates that I have an excellent network connection on the laptop, but I can't connect to the internet.

Would anyone have any idea as to what the problem may be.

After spending 3 days on trying to resolve this 'slight inconvenience' I am willing to try anything.

 

Can you see any of your other 3 computers ?

 

No I can't see anything from the Laptop.

 

Does your modem has wireless ?

 

Hi BreezyCricket,

If I recall correctly the 2-wire has wireless disabled by default, have you enabled it?

 

Thanke to all for the replies.

I spent about 2 hours on the phone with my ISP's Technical support trying to resolve this problem and they finally gave up, so, having nothing to lose, I tried one last thing.

When I bought my Laptop it had Vista installed and it did not take me very long to realize that Vista was the best advertising Apple had ever gotten for free.

Rather than scrap it though I bought another hard drive and installed XP and have been using it ever since.

After giving up on my present problem, I decided to swap the drive again and see if by some miracle the problem would resolve itself, and that is exactly what has happened.

Using the drive with Vista installed everything works fine so I must assume there is a conflict of some sort with XP.

I will keep working on this and will post a reply when I have something useful to add, although I am still open to suggestions because swapping the drive again to try anything is a very simple task.