How do you fix a laptop to work and explore the web short man hooked up to the modem?

Answer:

To take on the Internet you kind of entail to be connected to a modem unless you have a wireless card and wifi access. If you do hold wifi access around you, you need to find what type of signal it uses such as wireless g or n and buy a card that will work near it. Also you can save net pages on your computer but you will not know how to go rotten of that site unless you are connected to the Internet. Hope that helps
You lucklessly don't give plenty information on your laptop to give much detailed help out. So, here's a broad-spectrum answer.

How you fix it depends on how you want to connect to the Internet. If it's through dial-up service, it's got to be through the modem. If you enjoy wired (cable or satellite) broadband 'net service you'll need to enjoy an Ethernet card installed and working. If you want to connect to a wi-fi, or wireless, network you'll requirement to have a wireless adaptor installed.

Older Laptops come with a modem(dial-up) and/or Ethernet card built-in. Most of the newer laptops presently also come with a built-in wireless net card.

If you are using a PC-based laptop running Windows, you can find out what you have installed by going to My Network Connections. Look for section marked Internet. Usually a wireless card will be discoloured as such. An icon name Local Area Connection usually indicates an Ethernet card. (If you want to use wireless, but don't have a wireless card, you can effortlessly and inexpensively get a plug-in wireless adaptor and install it within your laptop.)

Decide which you are going to use, and make sure it is enabled. (Do that by right-clicking and select the enable action.)

You'll requirement a RJ-45 cable to jack-in to a wired modem/router box for broeadband, or a wireless router to access if you are going that route.