I have SKY broadband with a netgear DG834GT Router. I have two desktop systems (one with Vista, the other with XP) I have connected the Vista system to the router and had no troubles getting online. The XP system cannot find the network at all. I tried 192.168.0.1 also but no connection there either. It says my network cable is unplugged (even though its wireless?) When i try setting up the computer for networking i get part way through then get a message saying to see article 871122 of the microsoft knowledge base, but i searched for it on microsoft.com but it couldnt find the article? I have also tried changing various things about how to connect to the network, but i have noticed that the "let windows operate the network settings" seems to have disappeared and i cannot find it anywhere (Yes i do know where it is supposed to be!) at the moment it is manually configured and even though i cant get connected to 192.168.0.1 i still have some connection to netgear but didnt when windows configured it. Im tearing my hair out over this, ive never had trouble like this before. I thought it could be the distant from the router to the xp system but it is only two rooms away, any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.

go to control panel, admin services, open services, scroll down to windows zero configuration. make sure its auto and started

Check this, might be helpful: Wireless Adapter Configuration

I checked the zero config. and it is on auto and started, I did restart my computer however, and now the *let windows config manually* has somehow returned... I had a look at the website, i could ping the loopback so no problems with my network card, but when pinging the router i got *destination host unreachable*. My network card doesn't support WPA, so i changed the settings of my router from WPA to WEP and obtained my key. When i entered the key in the networking wizard and clicked next it said the wizard could not create a wireless network. There is still no available network in reach, even after i changed windows to let it configure my network... Still don't seem to be any further into solving the problem, but thanks for such a quick reply though.

In device manager is your lan network ok or does it have a question mark next to it? Can you connect ok via Lan cable? -------------------- Many Thanks REIDY

I havn't a clue what the problem was but after endless hours of trying i just decided to format my computer and i was able to connect straight away, so possibly some of the default settings could have been changed. Thanks to everyone for thier help though.