Laptop Won't Connect To Internet/router

[flobadob]

I got a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile laptop from someone with no operating system on it. I've managed to load it with Vista Home Basic but when I turned it on I cannot get it to connect to our router. When I click for it to connect to a network it doesn't see the router. I know that I have got WiFi enabled because the LED is on. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

[WyeDyed]

Sounds like the driver for the WLAN is not installed.
Have a look in Control Panel -> Device Manager and see if you have any yellow triangles.

[VHG]

You probably need to download and install some drivers, including the drivers for the network capability.

Laptops often have "special" hardware components that need software drivers to make them work, and these need to be installed on top of Windows.

Go to the Fujitsu Siemens web site and find the support page for your laptop and download and install the drivers.

I think they may just be called Fujitsu now and have dropped the Siemens part of the name.

[WyeDyed]

Support website here:
http://support.ts.fujitsu.com/productselect.asp

[flobadob]

Thanks for that link ??Chuck??, hope it works, will try it tomorrow.

Would it be possible for me to download the drivers onto a memory stick using another computer and then load them onto the Fujitsu afterwards using the SUB?

[boxtops]

I see no chuck!

[WyeDyed]

Yup!
If you download the LAN and WLAN drivers first and copy them to the memory stick, transfer them to the laptop (the desktop will do), run them from there.
Then you can connect directly back to the page and download any other drivers that are missing.

[WyeDyed]

Ive been called worse things ;-)

[WyeDyed]

Please read my post at 21:38

[flobadob]

Thanks, that worked but of course now I've got another problem, argh!!