Cant connect to internet but have wireless connection

I am goin to try and be as specific as possible, but please forgive m
if I've left something out. I have a Dell Inspirion E1505 laptop, Inte
T2080 @ 1.73Ghz, 1014MB of Ram, and 32 bit Windows Vista Home and I hav
McAfee security. This as my sons laptop and he could not get the OS t
start up. I done a system restore have since been able to log in. Fro
that point I have tried to connect to the internet with a netgea
wireless router WGR614 v6. I can establish a wireless connection, but
am unable to connect to IE. When trying to do so, I get interne
explorer cannont display web page. When I try diagnose connections I ge
the host may be down and windows found a problem that cannot be repaire
automatically. I am running a pc with xp home through the netgear route
with an ethernet cable so I know the internet connection is good. I hav
tried to connect in safe mode. I have done an ipconfig reset and a dn
flush. I disabled my windows firewall and still have no luck. I
necessary, I can post my ipconfig. Thanks any help is much appreciated

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technician

Hi
It is possible that you think that you can establish a Wireless connection,
but in Reality it is Not so.
If you do have an IP, and it is 169.xx.xx.xxx then you do Not have a
connection to the Router.
Maybe this can Help, http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).

"technician" <> wrote in message
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>
> I am goin to try and be as specific as possible, but please forgive me
> if I've left something out. I have a Dell Inspirion E1505 laptop, Intel
> T2080 @ 1.73Ghz, 1014MB of Ram, and 32 bit Windows Vista Home and I have
> McAfee security. This as my sons laptop and he could not get the OS to
> start up. I done a system restore have since been able to log in. From
> that point I have tried to connect to the internet with a netgear
> wireless router WGR614 v6. I can establish a wireless connection, but I
> am unable to connect to IE. When trying to do so, I get internet
> explorer cannont display web page. When I try diagnose connections I get
> the host may be down and windows found a problem that cannot be repaired
> automatically. I am running a pc with xp home through the netgear router
> with an ethernet cable so I know the internet connection is good. I have
> tried to connect in safe mode. I have done an ipconfig reset and a dns
> flush. I disabled my windows firewall and still have no luck. If
> necessary, I can post my ipconfig. Thanks any help is much appreciated.
>
>
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> technician

Jack, thanks for your info. I do have a wireless connection accordin
to the dell wireless wlan card utility. I have a gateway ip address an
a client ip and they both begin with 192. The connection status is se
up for IPv4 connectivity with open dns servers. The status shows th
netgear router with a speed of 54Mbps. I will say that I have tried t
ping google.com in command prompt and I get a message "ping could no
find host google.com. please check name and try again." I read this ma
have something to do with dns

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technician

If anyone cares to know. I am having this problem with a lan connectio
and wireless. I establish the connections and obtain an ip addres
similar to the pc I'm using to post comment. Please, if anyone has an
ideas

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technician