marmaduke95 Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 This will be my fifth forum to find out this question. I am willing to answer back everyday to find out the solution. I have a cable internet with an external modem, I have a d-link wireless router, and a linksys wireless card for my notebook. I have two macs (Powerbook and an iMac) they both are connected. My router is unsecured and open. My work is PC driven and they gave me a dell notebook that runs on XP Pro. The problem is that when I put the linksys card in and put in the software the PC will not let me connect. It shows the network, shows a strong signal but when I use the connection wizard it will not work. I have disabled the firewall and tried to reconnect. Still no go. If someone could walk me through the settings or something that will get this thing connected I would appreciate. I don't want to say my job depends on it, but it kind of does. PLEASE HELP, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Make sure you have default gateway set to the router's IP.Do ipconfig /renew from command prompt to see if DHCP is working correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarade_Tux Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Are you able to connect your PC to the router ?Or is it the connection to the MACs that is problematic ?Also, which SP do you run for XP; SP0, SP1 or SP2 ?Have you tried connecting to the router using an Ethernet wire ?Are your macs connected wirelessly ?And connection wizard is of no use here imho.If your router is able to be a DHCP server (as most do) and the service "DHCP client" in XP is not disabled then you don't have anything to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarquel Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 My router is unsecured and open.Hope you have it locked down via MAC addressing Have you tried connecting the Dell's laptop physically to the router? does that work?CheersNath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmaduke95 Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 The Macs are connected wirelessly. I just tried connecting the router with the PC with a ethnet cable and that worked. I am excited about that. I really just wanted to get this wireless. The DHCP and the SP are all greek to me. I appreciate the help I just need it spelled out a little more for me. I am a little slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarade_Tux Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 DHCP is a technology that ease network installation.It seems this is working. To be sure, I think you can right-click on your network connection and select status (this is in Control Panel -> "Network Connections").SP means Service Pack.XP SP1 does not handle wireless networks as efficiently as XP SP2 (it lacks WPA2 among others). But an update is available if you need it.(SP0 is XP without any service pack)Have you tried your PCMCIA card with another computer ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmaduke95 Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 I know that the PC has at least the Service Pack 1 in. I don't know about SP2. When I click on network connections it shows three networks. The Local Area which worked when I connected the ethernet. The Wireless B(which is the Linksys) show "not connected". The other is dell trying to pick up something without a card. I have clicked on the Wireless Network Tab and viewed networks, picked the Link and it won't connnect. I then click the advanced button in the preferrred networks and picked any available one and preferred access points. Still No Go. Please, Please Help!!!! This is driving me crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmaduke95 Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 I know that the PC has at least the Service Pack 1 in. I don't know about SP2. When I click on network connections it shows three networks. The Local Area which worked when I connected the ethernet. The Wireless B(which is the Linksys) show "not connected". The other is dell trying to pick up something without a card. I have clicked on the Wireless Network Tab and viewed networks, picked the Link and it won't connnect. I then click the advanced button in the preferrred networks and picked any available one and preferred access points. Still No Go. Please, Please Help!!!! This is driving me crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 ya, windows sucks with wireless. try setting a static ip address.http://www.hotcomm.com/FAQ/FAQ_staticIPXP.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarade_Tux Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Right-click on "My computer", click on Properties. Then the servicepack version is written.If it is SP1, download and install this update : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...C0-1A52A6F005E4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmaduke95 Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 WooooooHooooo!!!!!!!!!!I have a SP2Does that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 i have a piece of information that might be of use.here in canada, (i dont know if itll be the same in america) but some of the wireless routers and cable modems dont seem to want to communicate with each other. the only chance we had in getting it to work was to change either of the pieces of hardware. its weird, but thats what happened to my neighbors up the street. they called me and asked what was wrong. so i went and looked at it. the cable modem wouldn't get an IP address from the ISP for some reason. so we changed the modem and that worked. maybe there was something wrong with the modem, but i doubt it because i hooked it up to my laptop through my nic card and it worked fine. i think they just weren't compatable. maybe the modem was too old? i dont know for sure. but that might be an obstacle you have run into.i hope you can get it working though.-brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmaduke95 Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 I tried the static address but when I did the ipconfig it only showed a physical address. No IP Addresses or Subnet Mask....nothing. It kept showing the ethernet configs. Only showed:Host Nameprimary Dns SuffixNode TypeIp routing EnabledWins Proxy enabledThen goes into Ethernet adapter On the other thing about the modem is that it works for the Macs and they are all wireless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperHacker Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 When you view the network connections, try disabling the connection and then enabling it again. (Right-click on the icon.) This tends to solve a lot of my networking problems. Also, this should be obvious but make sure you're close enough to get a good signal. Try to avoid having to go through walls, and turn off things that might cause interference. It might be worth going to some other place that has wireless such as a restaurant or Internet café, and see if you can find their network; that would tell you if the PCMCIA card works.Also it could be the router refusing any more connections; try turning off one of the Macs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 You should also Disable all network adapters in the Device Manager other than the one that you are actually using, otherwise it causes some confusion as well as slows down boot time a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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