What happened?

My wireless connection worked fine 3 days ago. The other night I came home
from work, and it was all haywire. I managed to get my two desktops (both
manually connected to the modem, so there's an obvious guaranteed connection)
working, but my laptop (Pavillion dv6k) is having problems. The laptop
notices the wireless connection, but they won't make a connection to the
internet. The Wireless Icon in the system tray says "Linksys Connection:
Acess- Local Only". What's up with this? I've fiddles with auto-creating new
IPs, and even changing my ICS settings around, then back to normal- still no
luck. I've reset both the router and the modem at least twice each, and
changed from channel 1 to 6, and finally to 11 on the wireless router
(Linksys Wireless-g 2.4ghz, only 2 weeks old). HP tech support is a joke, can
you guys help?

Hi
If you have a Wireless Router you do not use ICS.
It is impossible to understand the topology of your system (what is
connecting to what, and how it is configured).
I would suggest that you should take a deep breath and configuring from
scratch.
May be some of these pages can help. http://www.ezlan.net
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Scott H" <Scott (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ACF56ECD-047C-4679-A934-(E-Mail Removed)...
> My wireless connection worked fine 3 days ago. The other night I came home
> from work, and it was all haywire. I managed to get my two desktops (both
> manually connected to the modem, so there's an obvious guaranteed
> connection)
> working, but my laptop (Pavillion dv6k) is having problems. The laptop
> notices the wireless connection, but they won't make a connection to the
> internet. The Wireless Icon in the system tray says "Linksys Connection:
> Acess- Local Only". What's up with this? I've fiddles with auto-creating
> new
> IPs, and even changing my ICS settings around, then back to normal- still
> no
> luck. I've reset both the router and the modem at least twice each, and
> changed from channel 1 to 6, and finally to 11 on the wireless router
> (Linksys Wireless-g 2.4ghz, only 2 weeks old). HP tech support is a joke,
> can
> you guys help?

Thanks for the link. I'll try some of the techniques they list. I've
reinstalled the software and drivers for both the wireless router, and the
onboard adapter on my laptop, to no avail. I'll post any other nuisances I
come across, and I'd be thankful for any more advice.
"Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:

> Hi
> If you have a Wireless Router you do not use ICS.
> It is impossible to understand the topology of your system (what is
> connecting to what, and how it is configured).
> I would suggest that you should take a deep breath and configuring from
> scratch.
> May be some of these pages can help. http://www.ezlan.net
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "Scott H" <Scott (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ACF56ECD-047C-4679-A934-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > My wireless connection worked fine 3 days ago. The other night I came home
> > from work, and it was all haywire. I managed to get my two desktops (both
> > manually connected to the modem, so there's an obvious guaranteed
> > connection)
> > working, but my laptop (Pavillion dv6k) is having problems. The laptop
> > notices the wireless connection, but they won't make a connection to the
> > internet. The Wireless Icon in the system tray says "Linksys Connection:
> > Acess- Local Only". What's up with this? I've fiddles with auto-creating
> > new
> > IPs, and even changing my ICS settings around, then back to normal- still
> > no
> > luck. I've reset both the router and the modem at least twice each, and
> > changed from channel 1 to 6, and finally to 11 on the wireless router
> > (Linksys Wireless-g 2.4ghz, only 2 weeks old). HP tech support is a joke,
> > can
> > you guys help?
>
>
>