Does your work network have any wireless security enabled? If so, you need to configure your the wireless information on your computer to be consistent with the security features of the network. Do you have any 2.4 Ghz cordless phones at work that may be interfering with the wirless network?
Are you absolutely sure that features like MAC address filetering or WEP or WPA encryption are not enabled on your network at work? Who set up that network? Have you contacted the person that set the network up? In most work environments it would be highly undesirable to have an open unsecure network so usually someone would find a way to place constraints on who can access the network (MAC address filtering) or prevent someone from intercepting data being sent of the network (encryption).
trust me.. I set up the network.. I know its not good tyo have it secured but we dont at the mement.. but I took my laptop to a friends house and it did the same thing.. yet it works fine at home..
Since the network card works as evidenced by the fact that you can use it at home, you will have to determine what is different about the wireless networks you cannot connect to. I can't count the number of times people have insisted that MAC address filtering or enrcryption were not enabled, only to go and forth with messages and replies in this forum to find the user finally say something like "Oh, I forgot that I enabled MAC address filtering (or encryption) way back when I set this up".
Are you using the Dell Utility or the Windows Utility to manage the wireless network from your laptop? If you go to View Available wireless networks, does your work network show up there? Are you running any firewall software that may be configured so as to only allow you to connect to your home network? Is the wireless network at work different from the one at home (i.e. are they both 802.11 b/g networks or is one strictly 802.11b)? If they are different, have you somehow configured your wireless network adapter to only work on one band?
well I dont know what else to do.. ANyone else can walk in with their laptop and connect so that means no mac address filtering or any type of security is enabled. Its only my Laptop...
tried that. One building I was in got the proper IP address and subnet and even the right default gateway and DNS but didnt let me go on the internet or see anything on the network. the other building I was in (my office) just gave me a"limited or no connectivity" then finally when I set the radio utility to manage the wireless it said "acquirting ip address" and never did so until I again got the "limited or no connectivity" message
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Does your work network have any wireless security enabled? If so, you need to configure your the wireless information on your computer to be consistent with the security features of the network. Do you have any 2.4 Ghz cordless phones at work that may be interfering with the wirless network?
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Since the network card works as evidenced by the fact that you can use it at home, you will have to determine what is different about the wireless networks you cannot connect to. I can't count the number of times people have insisted that MAC address filtering or enrcryption were not enabled, only to go and forth with messages and replies in this forum to find the user finally say something like "Oh, I forgot that I enabled MAC address filtering (or encryption) way back when I set this up".
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I have the same hardware and had the same problem to work with different networks. The solution was / is.:
cmd
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit
My problem was / is that the networks use different IP ranges.
EGUG
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May 21st, 2005 06:00
Please check the network name (e.g. Oemworkgroup, homenet).
Another reason maybe that you have to join the "domain".
EGUG