Notebook connection Problems

[scottypup]

I am attempting to install a wireless adapter to my notebook. I also have installed a wireless router to my desktop.

Desktop is a Emachines W2060.
Notebook is a Dell Inspiron I2650 running XP home Service Pack 1
Router is a Linksys WRT54G
Adapter is a Linksys WPC54G
I am connected through a cable modem.

I installed the router no problem and the desktop is working fine.
I installed the adapter on the notebook and everything worked fine. I then went to bed and woke up the next mornign to find I can not connect to the internet on my notebook. It shows that I am connected and the signal strength is excellent. However when I go to IE it says there is no connection to the internet.

So I called Linksys tech support. The tech spoke very very poor english so I think I know what he told me.

After trying several things he told me I needed to upgrade to service pack 1A or 2. When I tried to connect to the internet through an ethernet cable (which was working fine before installing the wireless adapter) I get the same message of no internet connection.

so i call tech back and we try several more things. Finally we go into DOS prompt and try ipconfig / renew. I get the folloing error:

An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection : An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.

An error occurred while renewing interface Wieless Network Connection 4: An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.

So the tech tells me that have a socket error and he can't help me.

The wireless connection says it is connected, the ethernet says it is connected yet can't actually get on the internet.

I need help! ! !

[Melb Gal]

Hi - I have a Toshiba Tecra Laptop connected wirelessly with 'excellent signal strength', but explorer or moxilla firefox cannot access internet pages. I can use the laptop at work on the wireless network there without hiccups. Why can't I access the internet at home?
I have an imac accessing the internet at home without trouble. I will post this, switch it off and see if that makes any difference - if it does, I'll re post, otherwise it's still an issue and any advice from folks out there would be greatly appreciated,
cheers, liz :)

[scottypup]

It ended up being a winsock problem. It was not resetting the IP correctly.

I honestly can not tell you now where I downloaded it but there is a small program called winsockxpfix Run that program and then shut you computer downa nd restart. If the problem was the same as mine it will then work just fine.

[Sylvander]

Is this it?
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html

[scottypup]

That looks like the same progam.

[Melb Gal]

Thanks folks. I'll take my laptop into work tomorrow to download the program and test it out. Fingers crossed!

[Melb Gal]

Hi guys, no luck I'm afraid. Thanks very much anyway. It's frustrating - the laptop connects wirelessly at work, but not at home, and my imac at home connects wirelessly without a hiccup. sigh!

[dxb]

can you do a ping from the outside? say ping www.yahoo.com, if you can connect through, you may have a IE setup problem.. check for proxy settings if its enable..