I recently bought a Dell Inspiron laptop pre-loaded with Vista Business.
Most things seem to work fine, though I do have a few problems.

Chief among them is that I have a wireless network at home, and a wired
network at work. I take my laptop between the two all the time, often times
simply putting the machine to sleep (from the Start/Windows menu) for transit.

When I get to work, there is no wireless network, and if I plug in a wired
connection, nothing happens. I've tried to troubleshooting the connections,
looked all around the network and Sharing center, and I can't get it to
connect. In fact, the only thing that seems to work is to actually reboot
the machine, and thereby suffer the serious time penalty getting back to
productivity.

Any ideas on where I can look for a solution to this?

SeminolePhil,

I'm sorry you're experiencing trouble. Run Diagnostics from either the
tray, or from the adapter when you can't connect. Post back and list what
Diagnose says the problem is, and what the repairs are. Then, which repairs
did you run and what happened?



"SeminolePhil" wrote:

I recently bought a Dell Inspiron laptop pre-loaded with Vista Business.
Most things seem to work fine, though I do have a few problems.

Chief among them is that I have a wireless network at home, and a wired
network at work. I take my laptop between the two all the time, often times
simply putting the machine to sleep (from the Start/Windows menu) for transit.

When I get to work, there is no wireless network, and if I plug in a wired
connection, nothing happens. I've tried to troubleshooting the connections,
looked all around the network and Sharing center, and I can't get it to
connect. In fact, the only thing that seems to work is to actually reboot
the machine, and thereby suffer the serious time penalty getting back to
productivity.

Any ideas on where I can look for a solution to this?