MN720 MN700 DHCP timesout

I am having so many problems with this MN700 and MN720
setup. I through it in my brother's laptop (Dell
Inspiron 5150) and it connected in about 4 seconds and is
great. My HP Pavilion is another story all together. At
first it would come up with an error saying that it was
the wrong WEP key. I was running no encryption at all.
I finally got that error gone, but now it just sits there
and timesout waiting for an IP. I assigned static IP's
to everything but it still won't connect. The other
thing is that the Pavilion has a built in wireless
adapter, but I had gone so far as to remove it from the
PC and reinstalled WinXP SP1 and even tried SP2. No
dice. I know that the card works, but for some reason
the combination of the HP and the MN720 is a no go. I
can use the built in one fine, but it only has WAP,
doesn't have the range of the MN-720 nor the speed.

Anyone got any ideas at all on this one. I even bought a
Belkin Wireless 802.11g card and same problem.


shasha

If I understand what you wrote correctly:
The MN-700 and the Dell have no problems
The Pavilion with an MN-720 doesn't work
The Pavilion also doesn't work with a Belkin 802.11g adapter
The Pavilion does work with the built-in 802.11b adapter.

Some laptops have difficulty working with any 802.11g card, but work fine
with 802.11b cards, which might explain the problem.

--
Neel Malik
Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"shasha" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:795501c476d5$d5f6a800$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am having so many problems with this MN700 and MN720
> setup. I through it in my brother's laptop (Dell
> Inspiron 5150) and it connected in about 4 seconds and is
> great. My HP Pavilion is another story all together. At
> first it would come up with an error saying that it was
> the wrong WEP key. I was running no encryption at all.
> I finally got that error gone, but now it just sits there
> and timesout waiting for an IP. I assigned static IP's
> to everything but it still won't connect. The other
> thing is that the Pavilion has a built in wireless
> adapter, but I had gone so far as to remove it from the
> PC and reinstalled WinXP SP1 and even tried SP2. No
> dice. I know that the card works, but for some reason
> the combination of the HP and the MN720 is a no go. I
> can use the built in one fine, but it only has WAP,
> doesn't have the range of the MN-720 nor the speed.
>
> Anyone got any ideas at all on this one. I even bought a
> Belkin Wireless 802.11g card and same problem.

It is starting to look that way. Very odd though since
it shouldn't have any issues if it is a PC Card Type III
slot.

And you were right in your deductions, the MN-720 works
fine in the Dell and not in the Pavilion. I was
convinced that there was something built in that was
causing the issue, but I disabled all the network
adapters and anything that had to do with them as well.
I also got the new firmware update and that went rather
well, though still no Pavilion connection.


>-----Original Message-----
>If I understand what you wrote correctly:
> The MN-700 and the Dell have no problems
> The Pavilion with an MN-720 doesn't work
> The Pavilion also doesn't work with a Belkin 802.11g
adapter
> The Pavilion does work with the built-in 802.11b
adapter.
>
>Some laptops have difficulty working with any 802.11g
card, but work fine
>with 802.11b cards, which might explain the problem.
>
>--
>Neel Malik
>Program Manager
>Microsoft Corporation
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
>
>"shasha" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:795501c476d5$d5f6a800$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I am having so many problems with this MN700 and MN720
>> setup. I through it in my brother's laptop (Dell
>> Inspiron 5150) and it connected in about 4 seconds and
is
>> great. My HP Pavilion is another story all together.
At
>> first it would come up with an error saying that it was
>> the wrong WEP key. I was running no encryption at all.
>> I finally got that error gone, but now it just sits
there
>> and timesout waiting for an IP. I assigned static IP's
>> to everything but it still won't connect. The other
>> thing is that the Pavilion has a built in wireless
>> adapter, but I had gone so far as to remove it from the
>> PC and reinstalled WinXP SP1 and even tried SP2. No
>> dice. I know that the card works, but for some reason
>> the combination of the HP and the MN720 is a no go. I
>> can use the built in one fine, but it only has WAP,
>> doesn't have the range of the MN-720 nor the speed.
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas at all on this one. I even
bought a
>> Belkin Wireless 802.11g card and same problem.
>
>
>.
>