Hello fellow geeks. I might need some help from you... So yesterday I went on a vacation from Portugal to Angola (Africa) and I'm staying in my cousin's house. The first day I spent here I asked my cousin for the router's password and the wireless worked pretty well. The next morning I woke up and tried to connect to the internet (via wireless) but I couldn't. All the other PC's in the house could, exept mine. I tried using the Ethernet cable and it worked perfectly, but I really need to use wireless. I tried to troubleshoot the problem and this is what Windows said: "Cannot communicate with primary DNS server". I've surfed the entire internet and found 1000 solutions, but none worked out for me. That is the reason I'm writing this. I'll give you all the info I possibly can, unless you ask me for more:
Router: Atheros AR5007 802.11b/11 WiFi Adapter
CMD ipconfig /all command info: (It was in portuguese I tried to use google translator to translate it to english, I'm not sure if its good or not but if you don't understand something, please tell me)
Windows IP Configuration
Hostname. . . . .: PC-GameZone
Primary DNS suffix. . . . . . . :
Node type. . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
Route IP enabled. . . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy enabled. . . . . . . : No
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Link-specific DNS Suffix. :
Description. . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR5007 802.11b / g WiFi Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-23-4E-06-79-7B
DHCP activated. . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration enabled. . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.120 (Preferred)
Subnet Mask. . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Concession obtained. . . . . . . . . : Monday, December 17, 2012 20:
36:39
Concession obtained valid until. . . : Tuesday, December 18, 2012 21:36
: 43
Default Gateway. . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DHCP server. . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DNS servers. . . . . . . . . . : 196.202.252.37
196.202.252.38
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . . : Activated
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Link-specific DNS Suffix. :
Description. . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek Family PCI-E RTL8168C/8111C Gigab
it Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-23-8B-06-ED-D6
DHCP activated. . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration enabled. . . . : Yes
Address IPv6 link local: fe80 :: 4571:7682:5203: afc5% 10 (Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.116 (Preferred)
Subnet Mask. . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Concession obtained. . . . . . . . . : Monday, December 17, 2012 20:
38:01
Concession obtained valid until. . . : Tuesday, December 18, 2012 21:38
: 05
Default Gateway. . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DHCP server. . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DNS servers. . . . . . . . . . : 196.202.252.37
196.202.252.38
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . . : Activated
Toll Tunnel adapter Local Area *:
State of the holder. . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Link-specific DNS Suffix. :
Description. . . . . . . . . . . . : Isatap. {D97080D2-1A32-43C1-A83C-A3E8A069B
D94}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP activated. . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration enabled. . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection * 2:
State of the holder. . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Link-specific DNS Suffix. :
Description. . . . . . . . . . . . : Isatap. {DC8B54D3-29DD-4529-AAD2-C061796BA
E78}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP activated. . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration enabled. . . . : Yes
IF YOU NEED MORE INFO please tell me. By the way, since I've been trying to solve this problem in hundreds of ways and none worked, I formated the PC and I still get the same problem.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOU TIME, regards
PS: My cousin lost his internet manual and all that stuff.
