Broadband / network adaptor

[chazza]

I've been trying to set up a work PC at home and connect it to broadband. The broadband is all working as it will work with my laptop but I keep being told that I have no network adaptor so cannot connect with the PC

The PC was networked in work so I assume it has something but might some bit of software have been removed when it was "wiped" for home use?

I know I can get a wireless dongle as a last resort but was wondering if there was any other way round the problem? I'm using xp if that makes any difference

[Ethel]

Was the pc wireless at work?

Have you looked at the hardware under 'system properties' to check it is wifi enabled?

[chazza]

No it was a wired network at work, but I can't even get it to work wired at home either

All my broadband provider kept telling me was that it needed a network adapter, which, according to the sites that I've checked, I have, but can't understand then why it won't work wired at home.

[ChuckFickens]

I suspect because it was setup for static IP address at your work

Click start then control panel and then click network and internet connections and then click on network connections.

This should open a window with all your network connections, right click on the one that says "local area connection" and select properties.

Where it then says "this connection uses the following items" Look down the list for internet protocol (TCP/IP)" and double click on it. then on that properties page make sure you have a tick in obtain ip adress automatically and obtain dns servers automatically and click OK a few times to close everything and try again.

[chazza]

Thanks for all replies, in the end I got a wireless dongle and got it set up that way.

Before I did this, no LANs were showing in my network connections