Keith (Southend) wrote:
I'm afraid this is completely off-topic, but I'm running out of ideas.
Not had a response from alt.internet.wireless.

I recently bought an Acer Notebook to use when I'm working away and on
holiday. One of the main considerations was to have a number of Internet
connecting options, eg: LAN, 56k modem, blue-tooth, wi-fi.

1. I have successfully added it to my adsl router port 4 and been able
to do all the windows updates etc and surfed the net etc.
2. My second option is wi-fi. Now I've tried to connect to my Linksys
Wireless-G Access Point and all appeared fine at first ,saying excellent
connection 54.0Bps. Yet I am not recieving anything through it, no web
sites. I tried turning the firewall off, which made no difference. I
currently have it unencrypted. My daughter laptop works fine with it,
she does have a Linksys PCAI.. card fitted.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, or what I may have overlooked.

My final option, which I haven't got all the bits for yet, is GPRS
through a mobile phone, I'll tackle that obstical when I've got over
this one g

Many thanks


Has it got an ip address?? (in XP open a dos box and type in ipconfig -
if it's a 169.x.x.x ip then it's wrong - in ME/98 then start-run-winipcfg)

I take it the router is configured for a class C network range
(192.168.0.x / subnet 255.255.255.0) Gateway is the ip address of the
router. DNS *may* be the ip address of the router or it may be the ip
address of your isp's dns.

Make sure dhcp is enabled for the laptop's card. You may have to tweek
the wireless card on the laptop. I've heard linksys routers sometimes
don't like non-linksys cards....

can you see the other pcs on your local lan??

Les
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