What is this problem! Desprete for help!

I have an SMC Barricade 802.11g wireless router and pcmcia card for my
notebook. Something is wrong. It comes on and off. The desktop is hard wired
in to the router and is perfect, so it's a wireless problem only.

I use WinXP Pro. I am having DHCP / IP problems with the wireless on the
notebook. For instance, windows says I have an EXCELLENT (54Mbps) signal,
says I am CONNECTED. The network card LINK light is on SOLID. So the
notebook is getting and seeing the wireless signal fine. It even identifies
the wireless SSID, encryption status and channel. Yet, I can not get online.
I am only getting a 169.*.*.* IP address.

I've done ipconfig /release and /renew, but when I try, it says DHCP server
unavailable/unreachable/etc. I can get it to work sometimes if I uninstall
the network card, reinstall it, it MIGHT fix it temporarily (Hour maybe) and
get the proper 192.* ip. For instance it was just working, I shut the
notebook and put it in standby, and it is back to the 169 ip and wont go
back. Reboots do nothing.

There must be something key here that I am missing. I get this problem
regardless if I use WEP or no encryption services, etc.

Someone please help me out here! This is killing my new notebook fun (Dell)!

Brian

In article <1sZtb.114448$(E-Mail Removed)>,
Brian <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have an SMC Barricade 802.11g wireless router and pcmcia card for my
> notebook. Something is wrong. It comes on and off. The desktop is hard wired
> in to the router and is perfect, so it's a wireless problem only.
>
> I use WinXP Pro. I am having DHCP / IP problems with the wireless on the
> notebook. For instance, windows says I have an EXCELLENT (54Mbps) signal,
> says I am CONNECTED. The network card LINK light is on SOLID. So the
> notebook is getting and seeing the wireless signal fine. It even identifies
> the wireless SSID, encryption status and channel. Yet, I can not get online.
> I am only getting a 169.*.*.* IP address.

Set address/gateway/DNS server manually temporarily.

> I've done ipconfig /release and /renew, but when I try, it says DHCP server
> unavailable/unreachable/etc. I can get it to work sometimes if I uninstall
> the network card, reinstall it, it MIGHT fix it temporarily (Hour maybe) and
> get the proper 192.* ip. For instance it was just working, I shut the
> notebook and put it in standby, and it is back to the 169 ip and wont go
> back. Reboots do nothing.

Software firewall?

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hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken

"Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:1sZtb.114448$(E-Mail Removed):

> I have an SMC Barricade 802.11g wireless router and pcmcia card for my
> notebook. Something is wrong. It comes on and off. The desktop is hard
> wired in to the router and is perfect, so it's a wireless problem
> only.
>
> I use WinXP Pro. I am having DHCP / IP problems with the wireless on
> the notebook. For instance, windows says I have an EXCELLENT (54Mbps)
> signal, says I am CONNECTED. The network card LINK light is on SOLID.
> So the notebook is getting and seeing the wireless signal fine. It
> even identifies the wireless SSID, encryption status and channel. Yet,
> I can not get online. I am only getting a 169.*.*.* IP address.

Your machine is getting some kind of timeout on DHCP when trying to
obtain an IP. The MS O/S will assign a 169.xxx default IP to the TCP/IP
when it cannot get an IP from a DHCP server.

>
> I've done ipconfig /release and /renew, but when I try, it says DHCP
> server unavailable/unreachable/etc. I can get it to work sometimes if
> I uninstall the network card, reinstall it, it MIGHT fix it
> temporarily (Hour maybe) and get the proper 192.* ip.

It may be that you're having some kind of NIC configuration issue with
two drivers interfering with each other. Or possible problems with more
than one wireless network the card is seeing in your area.

For instance it
> was just working, I shut the notebook and put it in standby, and it is
> back to the 169 ip and wont go back. Reboots do nothing.
>
> There must be something key here that I am missing. I get this problem
> regardless if I use WEP or no encryption services, etc.

You should disable XP's Wireless Zero Configuration Service on the
machine.

You should not use XP's Network Wizard.
>
> Someone please help me out here! This is killing my new notebook fun
> (Dell)!
>

I just switched to XP Pro and wireless and made two posts within the last
two weeks or so on how to come around the 169.xxx on an XP machine
without reinstalling the driver in this NG.

It also could be the router's DHCP is defective too, but I lean towards
card mis-configuration or interference that is leading to the DHCP
timeout and the assigning of the 169.xxx IP to the NIC by the O/S.

HTH

Duane

What is funny though is this. I was sitting 25 feet away with an excellent
signal, after I finally got it working again. 20 minutes later I was just
disconnected with the same garbage, when I was doing nothing! This is very
frustrating, I'm not a happy wireless user right now, its been down more
than it works, and I dont know how to fix it.


"Duane Arnold" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:1sZtb.114448$(E-Mail Removed):
>
> > I have an SMC Barricade 802.11g wireless router and pcmcia card for my
> > notebook. Something is wrong. It comes on and off. The desktop is hard
> > wired in to the router and is perfect, so it's a wireless problem
> > only.
> >
> > I use WinXP Pro. I am having DHCP / IP problems with the wireless on
> > the notebook. For instance, windows says I have an EXCELLENT (54Mbps)
> > signal, says I am CONNECTED. The network card LINK light is on SOLID.
> > So the notebook is getting and seeing the wireless signal fine. It
> > even identifies the wireless SSID, encryption status and channel. Yet,
> > I can not get online. I am only getting a 169.*.*.* IP address.
>
> Your machine is getting some kind of timeout on DHCP when trying to
> obtain an IP. The MS O/S will assign a 169.xxx default IP to the TCP/IP
> when it cannot get an IP from a DHCP server.
>
> >
> > I've done ipconfig /release and /renew, but when I try, it says DHCP
> > server unavailable/unreachable/etc. I can get it to work sometimes if
> > I uninstall the network card, reinstall it, it MIGHT fix it
> > temporarily (Hour maybe) and get the proper 192.* ip.
>
> It may be that you're having some kind of NIC configuration issue with
> two drivers interfering with each other. Or possible problems with more
> than one wireless network the card is seeing in your area.
>
> For instance it
> > was just working, I shut the notebook and put it in standby, and it is
> > back to the 169 ip and wont go back. Reboots do nothing.
> >
> > There must be something key here that I am missing. I get this problem
> > regardless if I use WEP or no encryption services, etc.
>
> You should disable XP's Wireless Zero Configuration Service on the
> machine.
>
> You should not use XP's Network Wizard.
> >
> > Someone please help me out here! This is killing my new notebook fun
> > (Dell)!
> >
>
> I just switched to XP Pro and wireless and made two posts within the last
> two weeks or so on how to come around the 169.xxx on an XP machine
> without reinstalling the driver in this NG.
>
> It also could be the router's DHCP is defective too, but I lean towards
> card mis-configuration or interference that is leading to the DHCP
> timeout and the assigning of the 169.xxx IP to the NIC by the O/S.
>
> HTH
>
> Duane
>
>

"Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> What is funny though is this. I was sitting 25 feet away with an
> excellent signal, after I finally got it working again. 20 minutes
> later I was just disconnected with the same garbage, when I was doing
> nothing! This is very frustrating, I'm not a happy wireless user right
> now, its been down more than it works, and I dont know how to fix it.

Well,

I came from Win 2K Pro using the Linksys WPC11 v3 wireless card, Compaq
Presario laptop and Linksys BEFW11S4 v1 router set-up. The setup was as
solid as a rock on the wireless for over two years. Then I installed XP Pro
on the machine and all HELL broke loose. It took a couple of days to get
things settled down on the wireless setup on XP. But the setup has been as
solid as a rock for over two weeks and going.

I think that if you find the posts I made here recently and the path I took
to circumvent the wireless issues, which seem to be a lot of what you're
experiencing, it may help you past the problems.

Duane