Where is my wireless network???

My friend gave me a used Belkin F5D7230-4 2.4ghz - 802.11g Wireless
Router without it's USB Adapter and Installation CD. I was excited that
finally I could connect to the internet wirelessly with my laptop. I
spent a whole day just trying to set up the router, to make it work (I
had this 169.254.x.x IP problem, but figured it out). So now I have
internet on all the computers, everything is fine, except my laptop
can't find any wireless network.
I've read many forums, and tried several things, probably my bigest
problem is that I don't understand everything very clearly.

INTERNET SETTINGS:
Connection Type PPPoE (I have a username and password)
Subnet mask 255.0.0.0
Wan IP 81.182.28.251
Default gateway 145.236.238.185
DNS Address 84.2.44.1, 84.2.46.1 (Automatic from ISP)

LAN SETTINGS:[/B]
IP ADDRESS 192.168.2.1
SUBNET MASK 255.255.255.0
DHCP SERVER ENABLED

*FEATURES:
NAT Enabled
Firewall Settings Enabled
Security Disabled
SSID BELKIN
Wireless Channel 1 (I've tried a few of them from 1 to 11)
Wireless Mode g only (I've tried "b only" and "b and g")
Broadcast SSID On
Protected Mode On
802.11e QoS Off

Use as Access Point Disabled

These are the settings for the router.

I've tried the "Setup a wireless network" wizzard
(and instead the "Use USB flash drive" - wich would have been easier, I
had to choose "Set up a network manually")

At the end I got the following settings:

Network Name (SSID): BELKIN
Network Key (WEP/WPA Key): 5aace30f9e8749c09ec22ed621
Key Provided Automatically (802.1x): 0
Network Authentication Type: open
Data Encryption Type: WEP
Connection Type: ESS
Key Index:

Under Wireless Network Connection Properities/BELKIN properties I made
sure these settings are the same as above.

There is a little program EVEREST Home Edition, it shows my Network
Adapters on my laptop
Under [B]Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN Adapter*:
Connection Speed 54Mbps
MTU 1500 bytes
WLAN Signal Strength -10 dBm (Excellent)
DHCP 192.168.1.1


I've downloaded the newest Firmware Update for the BELKIN router.
Also tried to stop Wireless Zero Configuration but that made it worse.


I'm sure you guys know all these stuff, which is kinda like Chinese to
me, but please help because I'm running out of ideas what to do....

Thanx!!!


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Wild Cherry wrote:
> My friend gave me a used Belkin F5D7230-4 2.4ghz - 802.11g Wireless
> Router without it's USB Adapter and Installation CD. I was excited that
> finally I could connect to the internet wirelessly with my laptop. I
> spent a whole day just trying to set up the router, to make it work (I
> had this 169.254.x.x IP problem, but figured it out). So now I have
> internet on all the computers, everything is fine, except my laptop
> can't find any wireless network.
> I've read many forums, and tried several things, probably my bigest
> problem is that I don't understand everything very clearly.
>
> INTERNET SETTINGS:
> Connection Type PPPoE (I have a username and password)
> Subnet mask 255.0.0.0
> Wan IP 81.182.28.251
> Default gateway 145.236.238.185
> DNS Address 84.2.44.1, 84.2.46.1 (Automatic from ISP)
>
> LAN SETTINGS:[/B]
> IP ADDRESS 192.168.2.1
> SUBNET MASK 255.255.255.0
> DHCP SERVER ENABLED
>
> *FEATURES:
> NAT Enabled
> Firewall Settings Enabled
> Security Disabled
> SSID BELKIN
> Wireless Channel 1 (I've tried a few of them from 1 to 11)
> Wireless Mode g only (I've tried "b only" and "b and g")
> Broadcast SSID On
> Protected Mode On
> 802.11e QoS Off
>
> Use as Access Point Disabled

Do you think this might be the problem?????

Wild Cherry <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>My friend gave me a used Belkin F5D7230-4 2.4ghz - 802.11g Wireless
>Router without it's USB Adapter and Installation CD.

Beware of friends bearing free wireless routers. There's a reason why
he or she is unloading it.

<http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=136493>
Hmmm... does it have the 802.11g upgrade or is it 802.11b only?
<http://web.belkin.com/support/download/download.asp?download=F5D7230-4&lang=1&mode=>
I can't tell for sure from the docs if it supports WPA encryption.

>Network Name (SSID): BELKIN

Change the SSID to something unique. If your neighbor has a router
named "BELKIN", you could easily accidentally connect to it instead of
yours. Change the name to something clever (or disgusting).

>Network Key (WEP/WPA Key): 5aace30f9e8749c09ec22ed621
>Key Provided Automatically (802.1x): 0
>Network Authentication Type: open
>Data Encryption Type: WEP
>Connection Type: ESS
>Key Index:

You really shouldn't be using WEP for security. You should be using
WPA or WPA2. WEP is very insecure.

However, if you're using WEP, the usual problems are either mis-typing
the 26 characters of garbage above, or trying to use the ASCII
equivalent key. There are problems converting from ASCII to Hex, so
use the Hex key. However, even if that fixes the problem, I would
still change the SSID and switch to WPA encryption.

All your other setting appear to be fine. However, I would run a test
and try temporarily disabling encryption on the Belkin wireless
router. If it works without encryption, check the firmware version of
the Belkin router to make sure it's the latest, and switch to WPA
encryption to avoid the ASCII to Hex conversion problem completely.

>I'm sure you guys know all these stuff, which is kinda like Chinese to
>me, but please help because I'm running out of ideas what to do....

Nope. We're really magicians with Ouija Boards and crystal balls.

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