wifi mystery

Hello all,

I have a desktop (SP2), a laptop (SP2) and an AP/router to set up.

Both laptop and AP have the same SSID, channel number....

Right now firewall and antivirus are disabled on all machines and the AP
is set to accept all connections from all Wireless machines without WEP or
WPA.

On the laptop the broadcom util (3.70.17.0) tells me that I am connected,
I can see packets moving back and forth but I can't ping the machines or
the router from the laptop.

The AP is 192.168.0.1 and the other machines have fixed IPs 192.168.0.2
and 192.168.0.13.

I really don't know why it tells me it's connected and nothing works, not
even ping on "wide opened" machines without firewall or anything (meaning
no windows fiurewall and the "real" one is disabled for the time being).

What could it be ?

Thanks.





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Some of those machines (ap) can't manage IP ranges bigger than 8 or so. Just
try to configure the laptop IP into that values.

"Txl" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello all,
>
> I have a desktop (SP2), a laptop (SP2) and an AP/router to set up.
>
> Both laptop and AP have the same SSID, channel number....
>
> Right now firewall and antivirus are disabled on all machines and the AP
> is set to accept all connections from all Wireless machines without WEP or
> WPA.
>
> On the laptop the broadcom util (3.70.17.0) tells me that I am connected,
> I can see packets moving back and forth but I can't ping the machines or
> the router from the laptop.
>
> The AP is 192.168.0.1 and the other machines have fixed IPs 192.168.0.2
> and 192.168.0.13.
>
> I really don't know why it tells me it's connected and nothing works, not
> even ping on "wide opened" machines without firewall or anything (meaning
> no windows fiurewall and the "real" one is disabled for the time being).
>
> What could it be ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Email contact
>
> http://cerbermail.com/?ltQ8eCFmRa

You didn't mention the IP of the laptop. Is the laptop's TCP settings
configued for DHCP? Is the APs DHCP server turned on?


"Mario Valladares" <aranjuez-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:d1elsq$lu$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Some of those machines (ap) can't manage IP ranges bigger than 8 or so.
> Just
> try to configure the laptop IP into that values.
>
> "Txl" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje
> news(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a desktop (SP2), a laptop (SP2) and an AP/router to set up.
>>
>> Both laptop and AP have the same SSID, channel number....
>>
>> Right now firewall and antivirus are disabled on all machines and the AP
>> is set to accept all connections from all Wireless machines without WEP
>> or
>> WPA.
>>
>> On the laptop the broadcom util (3.70.17.0) tells me that I am connected,
>> I can see packets moving back and forth but I can't ping the machines or
>> the router from the laptop.
>>
>> The AP is 192.168.0.1 and the other machines have fixed IPs 192.168.0.2
>> and 192.168.0.13.
>>
>> I really don't know why it tells me it's connected and nothing works, not
>> even ping on "wide opened" machines without firewall or anything (meaning
>> no windows fiurewall and the "real" one is disabled for the time being).
>>
>> What could it be ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Email contact
>>
>> http://cerbermail.com/?ltQ8eCFmRa
>
>

Some routers are set to deny ping requests by default.
But it sounds like you have tcp/ip config issues. Hard to tell without more
info

-Brian

"Txl" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello all,
>
> I have a desktop (SP2), a laptop (SP2) and an AP/router to set up.
>
> Both laptop and AP have the same SSID, channel number....
>
> Right now firewall and antivirus are disabled on all machines and the AP
> is set to accept all connections from all Wireless machines without WEP or
> WPA.
>
> On the laptop the broadcom util (3.70.17.0) tells me that I am connected,
> I can see packets moving back and forth but I can't ping the machines or
> the router from the laptop.
>
> The AP is 192.168.0.1 and the other machines have fixed IPs 192.168.0.2
> and 192.168.0.13.
>
> I really don't know why it tells me it's connected and nothing works, not
> even ping on "wide opened" machines without firewall or anything (meaning
> no windows fiurewall and the "real" one is disabled for the time being).
>
> What could it be ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Email contact
>
> http://cerbermail.com/?ltQ8eCFmRa