wireless i d switch?

Question

hi can sum1 tell me where the wireless id switch is on my laptop im having trouble setting up my router it just says no signal found thanks

Answer 1

There usually isn't a wireless ID switch. Though you maybe able to turn wireless on and off on the laptop usually via a button near the top of the keyboard or on the side that looks like an antenna with brackets coming off it, like the below:
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If this doesn't do it, or you can't find it we are going to need to know what you need to do, and what model laptop and router/access point you are using.

Answer 2

It would be very helpful if you were to provide more information. If you also were to write with conventional English grammar, spelling, and punctuation it would make it easer to understand as well. Try following the conventional rules for communication and it would most likely accelerate any answers and all answer accuracy you receive.

As I see it you have a broadband source which terminates wiht a modem. You have connected the modem to your router. Your router has a wireless access point. Your notebook pc is supposed to be wireless capable and you cannot connect.

What we do not know from your information is:

1. Does your router work when a wired LAN connection is used?
2. Have you activated the wireless functionality on your router?
3. Have you activated the DHCP for providing LAN IP addresses on your router?
4. What sort of security measures did you set up on the router side? Did you match these on the lap top side? If not you cannot connect.
5. What SSID did you use? Is the broadcast on or not? This is on the router.
6. Did you turn on the wireless functionality on your notebook?
7. What make and model # is your router and access point?
8. Did you see if a newer firmware is available for your router? If so, did you upgrade the router with the new firmware? Often the lower cost home grade routers have defective firmware when shipped from the factory and a firmware upgrade can make major improvements.

Answers to all of the above will help us greatly in helping you.

Your statement "no signal found" suggests you turned on the wireless functionality on the notebook and it found no wireless (SSID) signal. This suggests that either the router wireless functionality is not turned on, or the ssid brodcast is turned off, or you are too far from the router for the signal to be detected. Make sure the router wireless functionality is turned on, the ssid is turned on, and you are within a few feet of the router in the same room. This removes any obstacles from achieving connections. Later on you can adjust this. Do this first. Then make sure all security settings you have set on the router are also set on the notebook (security settings include encryption, preshared key, MAC address validation, etc). Make sure, if MAC address validation is activated, that you use the MAC address of the wireless port (if you are not sure which MAC address to use, open command prompt (Start, run - type in cmd and hit enter) and type in at the prompt "ipconfig /all" without the quotes and with the space before / and you will see a display of wired and wireless ports. The MAC address is called "physical address" and it is a 12 character address, often displayed with a colon (:) between every 2 characters.

I suggest you try the above. If things do not work, ask again addressing my questions at the top and we can help further.