New Asus X83VM-x2 can't connect to internet

Bought this laptop earlier tonight, and so far have been unable to get it to connect to my wireless router. It will work if I plug it directly into the router, and it can see a signal from the router but everytime I try to connect it experiences a problem, and sometimes says something about dns issues.

I have a HP that connects fine, however I have never used vista so don't know if it is a laptop issue or a vista issue. I am trying to connect to a lynksys router, anyone know of something I could try? We tried it on a couple of unsecured networks at my moms and it wouldn't get on there either.

 

Hi and welcome to the forums

The first step that most people here will tell you is to try an reinstall your wifi driver. Since your HP works fine with the router, I would suspect it is a software on your Asus that is causing the problem. There may be a newer wifi driver version on Asus's website, so I'd check with that too.

 

Thanks, I will check that out, however I was able to connect by turning off my WEP protection, basically turned off all security and I can get on.

I have the key and have it typed correctly into the laptop but it just doesn't want to use it. It comes back saying something about dns, but I don't have the laptop with me atm to verify the error. It's pretty annoying, because I am sure this is going to be a vista issue, and I don't know anything about vista, yet.