Problems to connect a wireless router to computer
well, I have a windows vista desktop computer. I had remote access to my old House. I recently moved in with my sister and she has an acer laptop and a netgear wireless router. Ive been trying connect my computer to the wireless router, but it won't work. its plugged in the right place and everything and when I try to detect network hardware and settings, it keeps showing up as "windows doesn't detect any wireless network hardware" I do not understand why because its hip sister said she had a disc to install his wireless router but it no longer has the drive. do I need this disk to install the router or what? any help is appreciated, thank you.
Hi keV ann,.
1. wireless network adapter. One for each computer on your network (laptops almost always have these built in).
2. wireless access point or router (recommended).
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