Help needed wireless networking 98se machine

I'm in the final throes of installing a wireless network at our church. All
is going well, except for one machine that I cannot make connect to the
network. It sees the wireless router okay, but no matter what I try it will
not pull an IP address and/or get online. I've networked hundreds of
computers, so I'm not a complete noob, but I may very well may be missing
something obvious. Here's the setup:

PII Dell Dimension
Windows 98
Hawking 54G wireless pci card (the drivers and utility installed fine)
Dlink AP 30 ft away
The connection shows from "normal" to "strong"

The church uses AOL and has been on dial-up. I can dial up just fine.
I initially used all automatic settings on the wireless adapter, to no
avail. I could not connect to the internet or ping the other computers. I
then configured a static IP, gateway, and DNS, but, again, nothing. I tried
going through the AOL network adapter wizard, and while AOL sees the
adapter, it returns a connection error.

Of course, every change I made required the win98 cd and a reboot, which on
an overloaded PII Dell with 64mb RAM was a fun exercise in itself, as you
can imagine.

What am I missing? And what critical information have I left out of this
post?

Thanks,

jm

Can you ping the router?

JM wrote:
> I'm in the final throes of installing a wireless network at our church. All
> is going well, except for one machine that I cannot make connect to the
> network. It sees the wireless router okay, but no matter what I try it will
> not pull an IP address and/or get online. I've networked hundreds of
> computers, so I'm not a complete noob, but I may very well may be missing
> something obvious. Here's the setup:
>
> PII Dell Dimension
> Windows 98
> Hawking 54G wireless pci card (the drivers and utility installed fine)
> Dlink AP 30 ft away
> The connection shows from "normal" to "strong"
>
> The church uses AOL and has been on dial-up. I can dial up just fine.
> I initially used all automatic settings on the wireless adapter, to no
> avail. I could not connect to the internet or ping the other computers. I
> then configured a static IP, gateway, and DNS, but, again, nothing. I tried
> going through the AOL network adapter wizard, and while AOL sees the
> adapter, it returns a connection error.
>
> Of course, every change I made required the win98 cd and a reboot, which on
> an overloaded PII Dell with 64mb RAM was a fun exercise in itself, as you
> can imagine.
>
> What am I missing? And what critical information have I left out of this
> post?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jm
>
>
>
>
>
>
Hi,
What does winipcfg shows?
Tony

Just use a static IP Address instead of DHCP...
Make sure the workgroups are the same...


"JM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:SgW2f.31709$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm in the final throes of installing a wireless network at our church.
> All is going well, except for one machine that I cannot make connect to
> the network. It sees the wireless router okay, but no matter what I try
> it will not pull an IP address and/or get online. I've networked hundreds
> of computers, so I'm not a complete noob, but I may very well may be
> missing something obvious. Here's the setup:
>
> PII Dell Dimension
> Windows 98
> Hawking 54G wireless pci card (the drivers and utility installed fine)
> Dlink AP 30 ft away
> The connection shows from "normal" to "strong"
>
> The church uses AOL and has been on dial-up. I can dial up just fine.
> I initially used all automatic settings on the wireless adapter, to no
> avail. I could not connect to the internet or ping the other computers.
> I then configured a static IP, gateway, and DNS, but, again, nothing. I
> tried going through the AOL network adapter wizard, and while AOL sees the
> adapter, it returns a connection error.
>
> Of course, every change I made required the win98 cd and a reboot, which
> on an overloaded PII Dell with 64mb RAM was a fun exercise in itself, as
> you can imagine.
>
> What am I missing? And what critical information have I left out of this
> post?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jm
>
>
>
>
>
>

Just use a static IP Address instead of DHCP...
Make sure the workgroups are the same...


"JM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:SgW2f.31709$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm in the final throes of installing a wireless network at our church.
> All is going well, except for one machine that I cannot make connect to
> the network. It sees the wireless router okay, but no matter what I try
> it will not pull an IP address and/or get online. I've networked hundreds
> of computers, so I'm not a complete noob, but I may very well may be
> missing something obvious. Here's the setup:
>
> PII Dell Dimension
> Windows 98
> Hawking 54G wireless pci card (the drivers and utility installed fine)
> Dlink AP 30 ft away
> The connection shows from "normal" to "strong"
>
> The church uses AOL and has been on dial-up. I can dial up just fine.
> I initially used all automatic settings on the wireless adapter, to no
> avail. I could not connect to the internet or ping the other computers.
> I then configured a static IP, gateway, and DNS, but, again, nothing. I
> tried going through the AOL network adapter wizard, and while AOL sees the
> adapter, it returns a connection error.
>
> Of course, every change I made required the win98 cd and a reboot, which
> on an overloaded PII Dell with 64mb RAM was a fun exercise in itself, as
> you can imagine.
>
> What am I missing? And what critical information have I left out of this
> post?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jm
>
>
>
>
>
>

Well, turns out that the computer simply does not like the Hawking card. I
tried everything I know to make it work, but it would not. It would not get
an IP address, and I could not ping anything, including the routers. I
tried static and dynamic, etc.

I unistalled the Hawking card, installed a Dlink pci card like I'm using on
several of the other computers, and it worked perfectly in a dynamic config.

This is very curious to me. I would understand if the Hawking card was dead
or would not establish a wireless connection to the router, but it seems to
be working fine. I just can't get it to pull an IP address.

jm










"JM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:SgW2f.31709$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm in the final throes of installing a wireless network at our church.
> All is going well, except for one machine that I cannot make connect to
> the network. It sees the wireless router okay, but no matter what I try
> it will not pull an IP address and/or get online. I've networked hundreds
> of computers, so I'm not a complete noob, but I may very well may be
> missing something obvious. Here's the setup:
>
> PII Dell Dimension
> Windows 98
> Hawking 54G wireless pci card (the drivers and utility installed fine)
> Dlink AP 30 ft away
> The connection shows from "normal" to "strong"
>
> The church uses AOL and has been on dial-up. I can dial up just fine.
> I initially used all automatic settings on the wireless adapter, to no
> avail. I could not connect to the internet or ping the other computers.
> I then configured a static IP, gateway, and DNS, but, again, nothing. I
> tried going through the AOL network adapter wizard, and while AOL sees the
> adapter, it returns a connection error.
>
> Of course, every change I made required the win98 cd and a reboot, which
> on an overloaded PII Dell with 64mb RAM was a fun exercise in itself, as
> you can imagine.
>
> What am I missing? And what critical information have I left out of this
> post?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jm
>
>
>
>
>
>