Cannot connect to wireless router(s)

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xsdirect

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Hey everyone,

I am having a bit of an issue connecting to any wireless router. Here are some short simple details about the situation.

. Using Windows Vista Home Premium - User Control is off (turned off after problem started occuring)
. Has worked many times before.
. Bought the laptop about 3 months ago
. HP Pavilion dv9000
. Using the internal wi-fi
. All wi-fi connections are dsl or cable modem
. None are security enabled

Here is what happens...

I turn on my computer, double check that my wi-fi is turned on. I go to open internet explorer. Cannot display webpage (work offline is not on). So I go to connect to a different wi-fi connection, I choose one of the 4 or 5, it says information could be seen by other parties, I chose connect anyways, it starts to connect, then it says connected. I try to open up IE and go to google.com, purple.com, and a few other webpages. All of them come up with page cannot be displayed.

I go to command prompt, and I cannot ping google.com or google's IP. I tryed turning off Windows Firewall, and all other security software. The only thing that has changed since the problem has occured has been that it automatically did windows update. I did a full virus scan with AVG, came up perfect.

Here are the results of some commands in command prompt-

- ping google.com -
"Ping request could not find host google.com. Please check the name and try again."

Same result for other URLs and ip's.

- ipconfig/all -

I can't post the screen shot, but some things that look fishy to me -

Primary DNS Suffix...............:
Nothing listed after it.
IP Routing, and WINS Proxy Enabled both have No's.
Connection-Specific DNS Suffix has nothing listed.

Anyways, a lot more listed that looks fishy,

- ipconfig/release -
Says cannot be completed when the media is disconnected. And it says it is for the local area connection.

When Vista trys to do a repair, it sits in repairing, and then says there may still be problems with the network, and then it says Windows confirmed that "primary DNS server" is currently online, but is not responding to connection attempts at this time.

I am trying to connect to other peoples wireless, but NONE work. And they ALL use to work.

Can someone recommend something please. And thank you, THANK YOU, for taking the time to read this long problem, and taking the time to respond. Thank you again.
 
Make sure you have the correct driver for the wireless card you have on your computer. I am not familiar with Vista yet, but I am sure there is a way to specify an Ip address. Make sure your computer retrieves it and you are not specifiying it. ALSO you don't have mac address filtering on do you?

Doesnt sound like it as there are problems with multiple connections to multiple routers. I would go with an IP address incorrectly specified.
 
I don't know if you built your computer, or if you purchased it. But what you need to do is look on the hardware list (not through the PC) and find out what type of wireless network card you have. Manuf and model. Then go into the Device manager of Vista (again I am not sure where it is at.) In Xp you right click my computer and select properties, and it is listed under hardware and device manager. See if you have and yellow ! marks or red X's showing somehting not installed properly. If that all matches up, then look into the Ip thing.
 
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Ok. I already went into device manager, and there are no red x's, exclamation points, or question marks.

When I go under network adaptors, and it lists my 802.11 wireless lan adapter, it says it is working properly. I can't search for updates because I can't connect to the internet, though.

I cannot do system restore either. For some stupid reason, even though they are very adiment about user control, they didn't create a restore point for me automatically.

What do you mean by IP thing?

P.S.
Start - control panel - device manager.
Thanks for helping me out, too. Really appreciate it!
 
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