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Dell wireless card and 2wire sbc router
Greetings -
We have a 2Wire router set up through SBC yahoo dsl connected with a Dell desktop and cable. We also have an Inspiron 8100 that has a wireless connection via a 2Wire pcmcia card. Neither the desktop or the 8100 have any issues connecting with the internet. We have recently purchased an Inspiron 9400 with a Dell Wireless 1390 minicard. I have setup the 9400 and can see the 2Wire router (provided I do not shut down the laptop cuz I have to re-enter the wep/wpa key, etc.). I am not able to get beyond this point. The Client IP address is 169.xx and the Gateway IP address is not available. I tried to renew the IP address and get an error message stating... windows could not finish repairing the problem because the following action cannot be completed: renewing your IP address. contact the person who manages your network.
I called SBC and after many "thank yous" they told me to contact Dell and ask for a "client manager that connects with 2Wire." I have searched all over and am not able to find any such thing. I do not want to purchase any hardware, as I am not sure if I need anything else. I would simply put the 2Wire card in the 9400 and retire the 8100 but the card is too big for the slot... (This is confusing to me cuz I though these slots were universal in size??).
Any help you can give is greatly appreciated.
volcano11
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February 26th, 2006 00:00
As a troubleshooting step, temporarily disable the wireless encryption on the router. If it works, then you know that the problem lies with the encryption and you can re-enable it and make sure that you enter the encryption key correctly.
Steve
debsurrell
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March 19th, 2006 14:00
I figured it out and am able to connect. I had to go to start, run, type in services.msc, hit ok,
find wireless zero configuration, double click and hit start, close window. If you can't hit start go to startup type and disable then enable, and then hit start again, hit ok, close window. Go back to start,
settings, network connections, right click on the wireless network connection, go to properties, click wireless network tab, check use windows to configure my wireless network setting, hit ok, close window. At this time it will show me connected.
The problem I am having now is that if I shutdown or hibernate my laptop, I lose the settings and have to do it over again. Its not that big of a deal cuz I have the steps down and it only takes a second, but it sure would be nice to not have to deal with it. Do you have any suggestions on how to save the setting permanently?
Thanks again for your help. I hope this helps someone else out too.
deb
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August 12th, 2006 04:00