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91439306
15,000 Watts of Bass Power
join:2002-10-16
New Milford, CT
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Re: [wireless] Troubleshooting Rebuilt Wireless Co
No firewall on XP. It's disabled.
And I'm not trying to access the internet. I'm trying to access the LAN, other shared drives on my LAN.
The wireless notebook is not appearing in Network Neighborhood and it cannot access network paths.
It cannot ping another PC's IP on the LAN either.
I did not have this much trouble getting it working when I first bought the card. It was pretty direct and easy to set up, even the WEP encryption.
The card reports a good signal, and that it has sent 401 bytes and received zero bytes. I can see the AP in XP's wireless properties, so the hardware seems to have extablished a link. However, the network resources are not accessible. It has an IP address, mask, gateway, etc., but just it's not able to connect with any other PC on the router. I've run out of ideas. | |
ovurt
join:2005-02-09
Saint Paul, MN | reply to 91439306
Do you have a firewall running that is blocking access to the network? | |
91439306
15,000 Watts of Bass Power
join:2002-10-16
New Milford, CT
|  [wireless] Troubleshooting Rebuilt Wireless Connection
I recently had to rebuild my operating environment on my laptop. Unfortunately, I lost all my wireless settings.
The wireless worked well before I trashed my old hard drive while trying to clone it to a new, larger drive.
I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 and the matching wireless PCMCIA card in the laptop.
I'm using WEP encryption and generated a 128 bit key. I entered that key in the wireless network card setup. I can now see the router's name in my list of available wireless services, and I have an excellent signal reported by the wireless card properties.
I have entered IP, DNS and the rest of the info for the TCP/IP properties.
The problem I am having is that the laptop cannot access the network and cannot be seen by the network.
IPCONFIG/ALL identifies the card, but DHCP is not enabled. All other info is present, IP, Subnet, Def Gatewy, DNS server, okay.
I cannot PING any of the other computers, but the router is reporting a LINK and shows a flashing ACT LED when the laptop tries to access Network Neighborhood.
Since I have a signal, can see the router broadcasting and ID, I assume the WEP key is correctly configured for the portable. However, I'm not sure if there may be some issue with WEP that is stopping the laptop from accessing the network, or if it's some other oversight.
I'm running out of ideas, and I've spent the last 56 hours rebuilding the laptop, installing all my apps, troubleshooting and patching and getting it all back to where it was. I'm 90% there, but still have no wireless functionality. I'm tired and the answer is probably right under my nose, but I must be too tired to notice it.
"NO network provider accepted the given path" is the error I get when trying to access a shared drive on any other PC on the LAN.
Any suggestions what else I should check for?
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