Need Help Connecting New Laptop to Internet

At a guess (and someone with more knowledge will be along shortly), I'd say you just have to wait for the security key from your daughter.

It's a password, probably twelve or sixteen characters.

I'm afraid you'll have to ask your daughter.

I know with my laptop (also a Toshiba) I needed the code that was on the side of my wireless router. That might be the security code you need. On mine, it's called a WEP key and it's used to make my wireless connection a secured one.

Take a look on the router.

Whoa... The technomoron (me) may have actually been able to help someone... that's it - the world is about to end...

You could check the literature for the new router she may have left around your house (check in the router assembly box or in piles beside the computer). Also, look for cryptic post-it's. Most people jot the key down somewhere.

Unless she made it obvious and didn't think she needed to. You need the key to get access. If she's got a password she's always (or usually) used, or (better yet!) one she attributes to you, try that.

Otherwise, you need the key from her. Sorry. You should still be able to hook into your server via cord. But, who wants that?

next time this happens, you can reset the password manually by holding down the reset button on the router as you plug it in for 30 secs.

the other route, i'm unsure which router make you have, but I have a dlinks, and you can take your lappy, hard connect it to your router, and type in the address

http://192.168.0.1/

this brings you to a page, I don't believe you need to place a name or password on the first page 'Admin' for the user 'Admin' for the paswrd sometimes, then login, first time i did it, i just hit the log in.

in the next page you come to where you can reset everything with no password

once in, put a password, make a copy of it when it tells you and save it somewhere you can find it. use as mentioned about a WEP as its secure, and you don't want to be having people leech off your system, it slows you down and for other reasons.

glad you sorted it out.