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Wireless is showing connected, but internet connection is not

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Help! I have a home pc and a laptop. My laptop is wireless and I have a linksys box. Wireless is showing an excellent connection. The internet is not connecting. Pc connects and works fine. Even tried connecting the cable directly into the laptop and still is does not connect. What's wrong?? Need help!! Thanks.
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Make sure you are using a known working cable and port on the router.

Otherwise there isn't too much left. The internal network card on the laptop could also be defective. That's how they fail. One day they work and the next day they don't.
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And make sure the network card is enabled. From the IPCONFIG post, it isn't showing up.
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Exactly my point. There is only a wireless network card showing on the laptop's IPCONFIG. So if the wired network card is disabled on the laptop, that would explain why the wired connection did work either - "Even tried connecting the cable directly into the laptop and still is does not connect".
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