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Hoping someone can understand what is going wrong here.

I'm trying to connect this laptop to my wireless router, which works but I cannot get any info through or from it.

The laptop is connecting via a DLink DWL G630 cardbus adaptor. Using the DLink software or even the windows own brand srtuff I can get the adaptor to connect to the router with 100% signal strength, but that's as far as it goes. I can't ping the router from the laptop or the laptop from the router it just times out. Can't connect to the net or anything else through it.

Firewall is disabled for the moment.

Any ideas?
 
Is the WEP key correct? D-Link's I've used in the past will allow you to connect with the wrong key, but will not send/receive any data.
 
WEP Key is fine I think, I copied and pasted it via a text file.
 
The only other idea is that the wireless card isn't using the latest drivers. The "Dell recommended" Intel drivers for my laptop don't work with my 3Com wireless access point, and I have to download the newer version from Intel.
 
Steep said:
Hoping someone can understand what is going wrong here.

I'm trying to connect this laptop to my wireless router, which works but I cannot get any info through or from it.

The laptop is connecting via a DLink DWL G630 cardbus adaptor. Using the DLink software or even the windows own brand srtuff I can get the adaptor to connect to the router with 100% signal strength, but that's as far as it goes. I can't ping the router from the laptop or the laptop from the router it just times out. Can't connect to the net or anything else through it.

Firewall is disabled for the moment.

Any ideas?
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Is it sending the DHCP info. Are you getting an address from the router?

Also tried rebooting the router??
 
I'm posting from the laptop now, it works just fine via the ethernet cable so I'm guessing it's a wireless thing only. I've now tried two different wireless connections, the one above and a usb dongle thingy, same story with both.
 
Steep said:
I'm posting from the laptop now, it works just fine via the ethernet cable so I'm guessing it's a wireless thing only. I've now tried two different wireless connections, the one above and a usb dongle thingy, same story with both.
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router set up with mac filter??
 
Not just now, but I have tried setting up access control as it's called on my router and allowing the cards mac address access, didn't work either :(
 
Now you mention it, no it doesn't. It connects fine if I put the ip address in manually but not if I set it to automatic
 
Yes Mark the access point, I have ethernet and wireless lan both in the same lan group using the same settings if that helps.
 
Try disabling the wired connection on the laptop in device manager or elsewhere, reboot and connect the wireless again. I've had problems before where it gives priority to the wired connection even if there is no wire.
 
I guess the quick fix is to assign the address manually. If you have a seperate router to your access point, turn DHCP on that and use the access point just as an access point, see if there's any difference. Also try upgrading the access point firmware. Unsure why the AP won't give the laptop an address, but I've had some funny dealings with DHCP in the past.
 
Thanks Robert but no joy there either. Mark the router is the access point. I've been thinking here, my intention is to install Linux on this thing so maybe it's best if I just stick with the cable connection for now. That may save wasting everyones time.
 
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