I have just Bought a Thinkpad R40 with Centrino technology. But for now, I need it to connect it to our normal LAN with normal RJ-45, but it won't. It's seems to me that it act as if it can't go wireless on the internet, it won't go at all.

We use static IP address, and there is really not much to set up in network settings, so am kind of 'blank'.

However, there is no problem for it to communicate with the other computers on the LAN, it just can't go on the internet.

Does anyone have any ideas why?

Thinkpad R40

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1.4 GHz Pentium-M

Intel 855PM / 400 MHz Chipset

256 mb DDR 2700

ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

AC '97 / DirectSound

30 Gb HD

Battery life: 6.2 hours on normal load (..nice)

XP Professional

I can't think why, if other than the Internet, you can do everything else on the LAN from the laptop. Wouldn't be anything to do with a firewall you've forgotten to add the laptop's IP to perhaps? We recently purchased an all-singing-all-dancing Sony laptop ((P4-3.0GHz)) with wireless LAN but after assigning the IP, I only had to plug the RJ45 cable in and everything worked fine - inlcuding accessing the Internet.

I haven't added a firewall yet for the same reason.

I have just tried to go on the net, using another network with autommagic IP-adressing and here it goes on the internet with no problem(?).

It's just the case that I my only option, is to use static IP where I am.