Can't see the router on a WORKING wireless network!

Hi all,

Here is a curious problem:

Configuration:
router Linksys BEFW11S4, wireless bridge Linksys WET11, wireless
laptop using W2K and Cisco wireless card, DELL hub connected to WET11,
wired desktop (to the hub), internet phone device (Cisco ATA) to the
hub.
all defined as DHCP on 192.168.1.x

the laptop, which connects directly to the BEFW11S4 (I hope...
otherwise my signal shold come straight from the sky...) has no
internet access problems. all other equipment is mostly down, except
for brief periods of time.

what is puzzling though, is that from the laptop I cannot get into the
router settings, nor can I ping it. the laptop ipconfig shows all
correct numbers - it picks up an IP address of 192.168.1.102 and a
gateway of 192.168.1.1 -- how come I can't even ping the gateway,
never mind connect the browser to it?

any ideas?

thank you
Mike

I don't know Linksys routers, but look to see if there is a setting that
disables administrative access from wireless clients.

On my D-link router, I have intentionally disabled ping from the WAN side.
D-link doens't let me disable wireless client access, or I'd do that
immediately. Adminstration from the laptop is convenient, but this feature
has risks.

"Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Here is a curious problem:
>
> Configuration:
> router Linksys BEFW11S4, wireless bridge Linksys WET11, wireless
> laptop using W2K and Cisco wireless card, DELL hub connected to WET11,
> wired desktop (to the hub), internet phone device (Cisco ATA) to the
> hub.
> all defined as DHCP on 192.168.1.x
>
> the laptop, which connects directly to the BEFW11S4 (I hope...
> otherwise my signal shold come straight from the sky...) has no
> internet access problems. all other equipment is mostly down, except
> for brief periods of time.
>
> what is puzzling though, is that from the laptop I cannot get into the
> router settings, nor can I ping it. the laptop ipconfig shows all
> correct numbers - it picks up an IP address of 192.168.1.102 and a
> gateway of 192.168.1.1 -- how come I can't even ping the gateway,
> never mind connect the browser to it?
>
> any ideas?
>
> thank you
> Mike