no hardwire internet

[mnkypprs]

I bought a laptop with W7. it has a wireless card that works fine. however, i try to hardwire it to my network and it will not connect. how do i do that? i try to connect to network and it automatically tries to go to the wireless.

[Allan]

Go to Network Settings and select the connection you want

[mnkypprs]

Well, I found out that you cant connect to the internet by cat5 unless the wire is physically connected to the router.

.ahem...

*blink

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Thank you for replying anyway. I appreciate it.

[Allan]

  How were you trying to connect if you weren't connected to the router or modem? Never mind - as long as you have it working.

[mnkypprs]

HAHA...no i was saying i connected the cable to my laptop but not to the router. dumb mistake. lol

[BC_Programmer]

better off then me.

my router manual had a typo where the 5 was missing.

So, after some struggling I managed to  get the cat sedated and plug his tail into the ethernet port, and whaddya know! nothing happened! It was about that time I passed out from blood loss (cat's are very scratchy when you try to put there tail in a ethernet port for some reason).