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.Go to Network Settings and select the connection you wantWell, I found out that you cant connect to the INTERNET by cat5 unless the wire is physically connected to the router.

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Thank you for replying anyway. I APPRECIATE it. 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.HAHA...no i was saying i connected the cable to my laptop but not to the router. dumb mistake. lolbetter 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).