Wireless

No able to aquire IP address
My laptop (Emachine 9150?) shows that it has a signal from the wireless and/or from the LAN connection. The problem is that it never acquires an IP address so even though the connection is seemingly there no internet access is available. I have tried disabling the wireless as well as the LAN connection with n... 31 Aug 2005 08:06

Wifi connection lost
Hi, On my desktop I have XP home SP2 and I have encountered the same issue with at least 3 wireless card: although I know I have 3 networks available the card will pick only 1 or 2 signals of each network alternatively. eg: I start connected to my own network, it works fine for a couple of minutes then signal... 31 Aug 2005 09:08

Win XP PRO SP2 WiFi and DHCP
Here the brief description of the problem: Most of the time clients can successfuly obtain an address via dhcp. But time to time a client fails to get an address from dhcp and starts with something like 169........ I'm unable to reproduce the bug. But I managed to find out (by enabling packet logging on the rout... 20 Sep 2005 18:01

Can't see other PC on network
I have set up a wireless network using a Belkin router on my main PC and the built in Wi-Fi on my laptop. The internet connection sharing works fine on the laptop I can surf the web etc but I cannot get either machine to "see" the other. I pinged the master PC from the laptop and got the message "4 packets se... 30 Aug 2005 05:49

Dell Inspiron 600m - Intel wireless card
I have the above machine with an Intel WM3A2100 wireless Network card. The card ceased to function. Dell sent out a new one but we cannot load/uninstall drivers. We downloaded 3 past generations of the driver to no avail. I have XP SP2 on the machine but only the SP1 Diagnostic disk. Dell have suggested running... 28 Aug 2005 17:12

2 Computers, 1 wireless router
We have 2 computers, 1 upstairs in the living room, one downstairs in the basement. We bought a D-Link DI-524 Wireless router so the computer downstairs could share internet access with the computer here in the living room. The computer downstairs is running Service Pack 1, btw. We got the setups both downstair... 25 Aug 2005 16:28

home network
I have recently purchased a laptop and want to be able to use my desktop for storage. when i try and ping my laptop from the desktop it works but when i try to ping my desktop from the laptop it does not work i think this is why i cannot get a connection with windows networking wizard. both comps have win xp i ... 20 Aug 2005 19:20

secure wireless?
im new to the wireless thing and was wondering how to make my wireless connection a secure one so others cant randomly use my connection. I have a d-link wireless router im not sure if this makes a difference.anyone know how to help? ... 20 Aug 2005 17:17

wpa question
Hello, I have 2 laptops. Laptop one is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card. OS is XP pro sp2 Laptop two is a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an Intel PRO/wirelss 2915 internal adapter reported to support 802.11 a/b/g OS is XP home sp2 I am connecting to a DI-624 router, hardware rev c, firmwar... 30 Aug 2005 12:35

Simple Explanation to Networking Wirelessly??
Newbie Question: I'm new to using wireless technology. I just bought a laptop computer and have it connected to the Internet using a Netgear Wireless router. That's easy enough, but how do I go about accessing files on my desktop PC and printing to the printer which is connected to the desktop PC? Is it is as simp... 19 Aug 2005 21:24