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From: Mark E. Bye on 5 May 2008 13:13 I have a Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop running XP and a Dell Wireless 1350 (802.11 b/g) card. I recently purchased a Linksys WRT54G wireless router to replace my Linksys BEFSR41 router. After about an hour online with Linksys tech support, I finally got the thing to connect via wire. Another good hour was spent with a second Linksys online tech support person in our attempt to get it to connect wirelessly. Unsuccessfully. Any suggestions? I do have a transcript of what we did in that session if anyone would be interested in taking a look at it and make a suggestion. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks! Mark
From: Fixer on 5 May 2008 13:21 "Mark E. Bye" <fxdyna(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:akfu14teus552k3qcmr1q21hoc8jl5ne8p(a)4ax.com... >I have a Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop running XP and a Dell Wireless 1350 > (802.11 b/g) card. I recently purchased a Linksys WRT54G wireless > router to replace my Linksys BEFSR41 router. > > After about an hour online with Linksys tech support, I finally got > the thing to connect via wire. > > Another good hour was spent with a second Linksys online tech support > person in our attempt to get it to connect wirelessly. > Unsuccessfully. > > Any suggestions? I do have a transcript of what we did in that > session if anyone would be interested in taking a look at it and make > a suggestion. > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Mark windows firewall by chance?
From: RnR on 5 May 2008 13:37 On Mon, 05 May 2008 17:21:50 GMT, "Fixer" <ram.systems(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > >"Mark E. Bye" <fxdyna(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:akfu14teus552k3qcmr1q21hoc8jl5ne8p(a)4ax.com... >>I have a Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop running XP and a Dell Wireless 1350 >> (802.11 b/g) card. I recently purchased a Linksys WRT54G wireless >> router to replace my Linksys BEFSR41 router. >> >> After about an hour online with Linksys tech support, I finally got >> the thing to connect via wire. >> >> Another good hour was spent with a second Linksys online tech support >> person in our attempt to get it to connect wirelessly. >> Unsuccessfully. >> >> Any suggestions? I do have a transcript of what we did in that >> session if anyone would be interested in taking a look at it and make >> a suggestion. >> >> Any help would be most appreciated. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mark > >windows firewall by chance? LOL..... Fixer you read my mind... that was the first thing I thought of too but you beat me to this reply ! Hopefully we are both right and an easy fix for the OP.
From: RnR on 5 May 2008 13:54 On Mon, 05 May 2008 12:13:28 -0500, Mark E. Bye <fxdyna(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >I have a Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop running XP and a Dell Wireless 1350 >(802.11 b/g) card. I recently purchased a Linksys WRT54G wireless >router to replace my Linksys BEFSR41 router. > >After about an hour online with Linksys tech support, I finally got >the thing to connect via wire. > >Another good hour was spent with a second Linksys online tech support >person in our attempt to get it to connect wirelessly. >Unsuccessfully. > >Any suggestions? I do have a transcript of what we did in that >session if anyone would be interested in taking a look at it and make >a suggestion. > >Any help would be most appreciated. > >Thanks! > >Mark Having gone down this road myself with different routers several times I can understand the frustration. Once I had the same router but I returned it and went with a different option. That said, I can think of several possibilities that are software related that can cause a problem but it would help if someone has the same router in case it's a router setup problem too. I think the transcript would be helpful so we don't have to ask too many questions like which OS are you using to begin with? Are you using any firewall? Are you using the card's wireless utility or windows builtin stuff (ie- Wireless Zero Confirguration)? Do you need to use any mac address in the router's setup? Usually when first setting up any wireless connection, it's best to use NO security (firewalls, wep, etc...) initially to know you can make a wireless connection, then you can begin to use the security features so that if it drops the connection, you can pin point the problem right away. You can also ping the router to see if that works. These are just the first things I can think of but I'm sure Ben, Chris, Journey, Tom and several others can also make some good suggestions to help you. Hang in there and be patient. I'm pretty confident as a group, we can get you connected wirelessly !!! ps-- sometimes I've seen suggestions about using the same brand router and card to make setup easier but I wouldn't spend more money to do this but if this option is available to you, you might consider it as a last resort. Personally I never needed to resort to this method but I've had to chew my nails more than once <g>.
From: RnR on 5 May 2008 13:58
On Mon, 05 May 2008 12:54:17 -0500, RnR <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, 05 May 2008 12:13:28 -0500, Mark E. Bye <fxdyna(a)hotmail.com> >wrote: > >>I have a Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop running XP and a Dell Wireless 1350 >>(802.11 b/g) card. I recently purchased a Linksys WRT54G wireless >>router to replace my Linksys BEFSR41 router. >> >>After about an hour online with Linksys tech support, I finally got >>the thing to connect via wire. >> >>Another good hour was spent with a second Linksys online tech support >>person in our attempt to get it to connect wirelessly. >>Unsuccessfully. >> >>Any suggestions? I do have a transcript of what we did in that >>session if anyone would be interested in taking a look at it and make >>a suggestion. >> >>Any help would be most appreciated. >> >>Thanks! >> >>Mark > > >Having gone down this road myself with different routers several times >I can understand the frustration. Once I had the same router but I >returned it and went with a different option. That said, I can think >of several possibilities that are software related that can cause a >problem but it would help if someone has the same router in case it's >a router setup problem too. > >I think the transcript would be helpful so we don't have to ask too >many questions like which OS are you using to begin with? Are you >using any firewall? Are you using the card's wireless utility or >windows builtin stuff (ie- Wireless Zero Confirguration)? Do you need >to use any mac address in the router's setup? Usually when first >setting up any wireless connection, it's best to use NO security >(firewalls, wep, etc...) initially to know you can make a wireless >connection, then you can begin to use the security features so that if >it drops the connection, you can pin point the problem right away. >You can also ping the router to see if that works. These are just >the first things I can think of but I'm sure Ben, Chris, Journey, Tom >and several others can also make some good suggestions to help you. >Hang in there and be patient. I'm pretty confident as a group, we can >get you connected wirelessly !!! > >ps-- sometimes I've seen suggestions about using the same brand >router and card to make setup easier but I wouldn't spend more money >to do this but if this option is available to you, you might consider >it as a last resort. Personally I never needed to resort to this >method but I've had to chew my nails more than once <g>. Oops.... Ok I see you already said XP for the OS (my bad). BTW, if anyone suggests a new card, well all I can say is I have the same wireless card (using XP too) and it works flawlessly for me in a large 2 story home. I know some don't like this card. |