Cant find my wireless netork but can find others?

Hello there everyone i have this reaaly tricky problem that i can seem to fix
Basically i have bought a new laptop but cant connect it to my network.im
running vista and its a gateway MT6223B .problem is that when i get the list
of wireless networks avaiable mine isint there.but my xbox 350 can pick it up
and connect as can my PC ,Wii and Nintendo DS but not my laptop.My laptop can
connect to other wireless networks but it will just not find mine altogher.
list of things i have tried. I have unistalled the driver and re installed
for the card.turned off encryption.SSID is on . ive used the laptops MAC
adress and entered it in the MAC adress control as allowed. none of the
above have worked .i have a belkin Pre-N routher

please post the test output of ipconfig /all from an elevated
command prompt

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:04:02 -0700, slyrope
<slyrope@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello there everyone i have this reaaly tricky problem that i can seem to fix
>Basically i have bought a new laptop but cant connect it to my network.im
>running vista and its a gateway MT6223B .problem is that when i get the list
>of wireless networks avaiable mine isint there.but my xbox 350 can pick it up
>and connect as can my PC ,Wii and Nintendo DS but not my laptop.My laptop can
>connect to other wireless networks but it will just not find mine altogher.
>list of things i have tried. I have unistalled the driver and re installed
>for the card.turned off encryption.SSID is on . ive used the laptops MAC
>adress and entered it in the MAC adress control as allowed. none of the
>above have worked .i have a belkin Pre-N routher
--

Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

teXt output

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:30:15 -0400, Barb Bowman <barb@nospam.com>
wrote:

>please post the test output of ipconfig /all from an elevated
>command prompt
>
>On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:04:02 -0700, slyrope
><slyrope@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello there everyone i have this reaaly tricky problem that i can seem to fix
>>Basically i have bought a new laptop but cant connect it to my network.im
>>running vista and its a gateway MT6223B .problem is that when i get the list
>>of wireless networks avaiable mine isint there.but my xbox 350 can pick it up
>>and connect as can my PC ,Wii and Nintendo DS but not my laptop.My laptop can
>>connect to other wireless networks but it will just not find mine altogher.
>>list of things i have tried. I have unistalled the driver and re installed
>>for the card.turned off encryption.SSID is on . ive used the laptops MAC
>>adress and entered it in the MAC adress control as allowed. none of the
>>above have worked .i have a belkin Pre-N routher
--

Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:04:02 -0700, slyrope <slyrope@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hello there everyone i have this reaaly tricky problem that i can seem to fix
>Basically i have bought a new laptop but cant connect it to my network.im
>running vista and its a gateway MT6223B .problem is that when i get the list
>of wireless networks avaiable mine isint there.but my xbox 350 can pick it up
>and connect as can my PC ,Wii and Nintendo DS but not my laptop.My laptop can
>connect to other wireless networks but it will just not find mine altogher.
>list of things i have tried. I have unistalled the driver and re installed
>for the card.turned off encryption.SSID is on . ive used the laptops MAC
>adress and entered it in the MAC adress control as allowed. none of the
>above have worked .i have a belkin Pre-N routher

See if this addresses your issue:

Vista Can't obtain IP address from some DHCP Servers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us


John Will
Microsoft MVP - Networking