Gateway MX6211b User Manual page 109

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Help and Support
For more information about connecting
to your network, click Start, then click
Help and Support. Type one of the
following keywords in the Help and
Support Search box, then click the arrow:
• connect to an available network
• manually add a wireless
• connecting to wireless network.
Connecting to your network
After you have named your computer and workgroup and turned on your
wireless radio, you need to set up the network connection on your notebook.
To connect to your wireless network:
Click Start, right-click My Network Places, then click Properties. The
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Network Connections window opens.
network
Right-click the Wireless Network Connection icon, then click View
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available wireless networks. The Wireless Network Connection dialog box
opens.
Click the network you created in the Choose a wireless network list, then
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click Connect. If you successfully connected to the network, go to
your network" on page
If you can see the network name in the Choose a wireless network list
but you cannot connect to it, your network is using security. You will need
to modify the security settings for the network in your notebook.
If your network does not appear in the Choose a wireless network list,
your network is not broadcasting its SSID. This is not an error and is one
way to add security to your wireless network. You will need to manually
add the network to your notebook.
Setting up your wireless network
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"Testing
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