I'm trying to move my existing wireless network, which has been running
quite happily in Ad-Hoc mode over to infrastructure mode.
Machines:
XP Home desktop with Netgear MA101
Win98 desktop with Netgear MA101
Win2k laptop with Cabletron card.
XP Professional laptop with Dell Trumobile 1300 WLAN mini-PCI card
I have a Linksys WRT54G router to use as the access point (I don't have a
broadband connection yet, but maybe sometime).
All of the systems except the XP Home with MA101 will happily connect to
the router. The XP Home system can see the broadcast SSID but steadfastly
refuses to connect to the network. I've tried both with and without XP's
Zero configuration service: with it running it repeatedly pops up a message
to tell me it has detected a network, but continues to tell me "wireless
connection unavailable". Without 'zero configuration' I can use the netgear
utility to type in the SSID and it then sits there saying 'Joining...' but
never actually manages to join.
I've tried with an without WEP on the router, I've updated to the latest
Netgear drivers (Driver date Jan 16, 2003, version 2.8.7.283), but nothing
seems to work.
Any suggestions please as to what else I can try?
Everything works just fine, BTW, if I plug the offending system into one of
the wired Ethernet ports on the router: I can turn off the router's DHCP
and turn on ICS and it all works fine, but I want to put the router in a
better position for covering the rest of the house, so connecting it by
cable isn't a long term option.
|
Similar Threads
Linear Mode
