I have basically given up on this after several weeks of failure. Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. If I take up a lot of room please excuse me.
Here is my setup:
I have a D-Link WBR-1310 wireless router & 3 PC's
PC1 is a 333Mhz P2 running win2k pro SP4 This one is hard wired to the router.
PC2 & 3 are Dell Latitude C610 notebooks one running win2k pro SP4, the other XPpro SP2 I am sharing a Linksys wpc54g adapter between the notebooks.
The wired PC connects to the internet it is the win2k notebook that's the problem. I've searched all sorts of tech sites & forums but I can't resolve the problem. The linksys s/w on the notebook indicated a connection between it & the router but when I ping the router there is no answer. I have tried removing security settings but still no connection.
I have basically given up and resorted to using my wifes notebook, the one running XPpro as it connects with no problem.
Any suggestions?
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
post the results of "ipconfig /all" So we can see what the wireless is picking up.
Have you confirmed there are no drivers errors under device manager. -
There were no driver errors. The Linksys CD offered a choice of four drivers with a recommended one. That is the one I picked.
This is what I get when I do an ipconfig /all.
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Windows 2000 IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Eds-PC
Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Wireless connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Wireless-G Notebook Adapter WPC54G V3
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-10-97-8A-B6
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.0.233
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : -
blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
The IP (169.254.0.233) is a fallback IP when it fails to make a connection of any kind.
What type if encryption method are you using with the wireless card? (WEP, WPA) I do not think Win2k supports WPA, unless this was added with the driver.
Try disabling encryption, and Disable the Firewall and see what error you get (run ipconfig /all again). When you bring up the wireless CP to view available wireless sites. Does it shows your router? -
How do you turn the firewall off? When I click on firewall settings I see an area for DMZ HOST and another area for VPN PASSTHROUGH. DMZ is not enabled but the VPN has PPTP & IPSec Passthrough enabled.
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
The firewall on the notebook is what needs to be off.
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Thanks for the clarification blue68f100. I'll try that when I return home tonight. I am using COMODO for my firewall, also I did turn WEP off a couple of times. Have never tried using WPA.
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Well I turned off the firewall on the notebook but the results are the same. The linksys S/W on the notebook shows a pictogram of the adapter & router connected but not the internet and when I do an ipconfig /all the output is the same as last night.
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
This was with no security on the router, correct?
Download a copy of netstumber and see if it detects any AP's. If not are you sure you have the correct driver?
Does the linksys software includes a site manager. -
I must confess to having one of those DUH moments. The notebook does have a 10/100 plug so just for the heck of it I wired the router to it. Lo and behold it still wouldn't connect to the router. This is strange as before I brought the notebook home I had it plugged in at work and it was working. I guess I'll have to check this out first.
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
That sounds like the chipset was not loaded corectly for the MB. Or things are turned off in the bios.
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Wireless win2kpro problem
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Stick2It, Dec 12, 2007.