wedge37 Posted December 8, 2005 Posted December 8, 2005 Hi, my wireless router is a Linksys BEFW11S4, version 4 firmware 1.52. I am running Windows XP on both the desktop machine and the laptop. The laptop is an IBM T43p series, running on Intel Centrino technology. Anyway, the problem is that I cannot connect to the wireless network via my laptop. I have tried everything, including changing the channel of the transmission signal and everything, but I still cannot get a connection. When I click connect from the wireless network menu, it tries to connect, but fails. I think my network router may be faulty, but the ethernet works perfectly fine, as I use it at the moment to link the laptop.Any ideas? Please help!!!
liquidguru Posted December 8, 2005 Posted December 8, 2005 , it tries to connect, but fails.how does it fail? any messages?
wedge37 Posted December 9, 2005 Author Posted December 9, 2005 , it tries to connect, but fails.how does it fail? any messages?No messages whatsoever, it just doesn't connect. Strange behaviour, I know. Any ideas? I put on a WEP/WPA key for the network, and set it up on the laptop as well. I disabled the MAC Address filter. :S
druiddk Posted December 9, 2005 Posted December 9, 2005 First disable all the security features on the Linksys and then try to connect. If that works then you know the Linksys AP is OK.
Gouki Posted December 9, 2005 Posted December 9, 2005 When you dont get an Error Message, thats problably because of the MAC filtering. Since you are using Ethernet cable, and Ethernet ports dont filter MAC addresses you are able to connect to it.Like the guy above me said, disable everything on your Router. Press the Reset switch on the back and it will load all default settings!After doing that, and if the Router works OK, I suggest you upgrade to the lastest firmware, since they dont always bring the lastest one from the stores.
liquidguru Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 you may have already tried it, but...goto your wireless networks conections properties, click on the Wireless Networks tab...if the 'Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings' is checked, un-check it...then double click your signal strenght icon in the systray, and make sure the SSID is set to 'linksys', if that is what you had the default set to....you may have already tried this, but i had this problem once, and doing the above sorted it out...good luck
eyeball Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 definatly upgrade the firmware, i was configuring a wireless access point only yesterday and it would connect, as soon as i upgraded the firmware it worked lazy *$*%$ why do they insist on using old chips with old firmware? what if a really dumb person buys that wireless access point and doesnt know about firmware? then they are screwed
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