[Cowboy622]

I have two computers hardwired with the wireless Linksys -G router and a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop. I had the network set up and all was fine. My wife got a prompt to upgrade explorer to 7.0 and now the laptop will not connect. When I try to highlight my home network and click repair, it states that if cannot find my IP address. How do I get the Dell wireless card to read the IP address? I tried resetting the cable modem and router but to no avail. I'm extremely new to networking so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Cowboy622]

Since problem was caused by update, I did a system restore to yesterday and all is well. Thankd anyway.

 

[diablo75]

Try this (this will not solve the problem, but will provide some info).

Click "Start">Run

Then type: "cmd" and press enter

At the command prompt, type "ipconfig /all"

You can copy and paste the text by clicking on the upper left hand corner of the window for a drop down menu. Select "edit", and then "Select All". The colors in the window will invert (meaning the whole window is selected). Click on that same box/icon in the upper left corner, click edit again, and hit "copy".

You can then paste the contents up in a reply.

This is just to test and see if you are still getting a connection to the router through the wireless NIC card. And if you do, then it's a problem that can be narrowed down to IE7, and not windows.