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Even though WinXP Wireless connection box says I'm connected when I open IE or FireFox browsers I get "page cannot be found". My hardware is a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop with a PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 mini PCI card and Linksys WRT600N router. All drivers for my laptop have been updated. After spending an hour with Linksys tech support I am still unable to connect wirelessly, but my wired cable connection works fine. Any suggestions would be great because I am really fed up with this $200 WiFi router purchase which for 2 days now has not worked. Below are 2 IPconfig results, wired and wireless.

****************************************************** These is my IPconfig /all result when I'm wired to the Linksys router:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Eli

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100

3A Mini PCI Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-F1-15-E3-7E

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0D-56-EC-C7-98

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 167.206.254.2

167.206.254.1 192.168.1.1

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, March 21, 2008 3:30:44 PM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:30:44 PM

************************************************************** This is my IPconfig /all results when I'm attempting my wireless connection:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Eli

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100

3A Mini PCI Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-F1-15-E3-7E

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 68.194.64.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 167.206.254.2

167.206.254.1

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0D-56-EC-C7-98

Reply to
don
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Cleaning up the double spaced mess.

Well, if these are connected to the same router, you apparently have a mess of static IP's pre-installed in the TCP/IP configuration. The lack of a DHCP server for the wireless config is the obvious clue.

Go to the control panel, find the Network configs, find the wired and wireless adapter, right click, select properties, then TCP/IP, and set EVERYTHING for DHCP server assigned addresses. When done, your wired and wireless results for IPCONFIG should have identical IP's (except for the IP address). If DHCP doesn't renew, run: IPCONFIG /RELEASE (wait about 10 seconds) IPCONFIG /RENEW

Incidentally, it looks like you have the wireless IP address set for the same IP as the router, which isn't going to work.

Reply to
Jeff Liebermann

Ok, let me just say first that you are a genius ! Your instructions were clear and correct ! Please, could you recommend a good book so that I could become familiar with all these terms, because I really have no idea what half this stuff means..... Subnet mask, default gateway, DHCP ?? etc.

Thanks so much........ I'm going to send you what I can for helping me........

Reply to
don

Nope. My IQ is insufficient (135?). However, I am sneaky, devious, evil, never follow instructions, and have been doing this for a long time. What you did was the right thing. You supplied NUMBERS instead of the usual prose. You also supplied what you were working with and a good description of what was failing. That's actually fairly unusual in this newsgroup as many of the questions are seriously deficient in both the description and the numbers.

Thanks. They weren't all that clear as I was semi-collapsed in my palatial office after a 2 hour exercise walk with some friends. It's amazing how lack of oxygen improves my diagnostic skills.

Ummm... no, I can't. I don't read such books any more. I learned that stuff perhaps 15 years ago. There's not much to it. You should be able to find something on the topic on the internet. No need for an entire book on the subject. Just search Google for "networking basics" and you should find something useful. Bug me if you can't find (or understand) anything.

Money is always welcome. It helps support my decadent and lavish lifestyle.

Reply to
Jeff Liebermann

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