I thought my solution to a friend's wireless networkproblem might help someone out there.
A friend of mine was having problems with his new wireless network so i went over to investigate. His laptop was getting full signal from the router and the desktop he had was working properly with his Linksys router (a BEFW11s4 if i remember correctly). However, the laptop was not getting through the router nor was it getting an IP address from the router. My first thought was to update the drivers on the card, which i did easily via a floppy. My second thought was possibly a faulty card so i tried it out on my laptop...worked perfectly. I googled and found results that said antivirus software could be causing the problem and that i should edit the registry and remove keys bound to DHCP. Ah, DHCP, the one thing i took for granted. I tried the registry edit with no luck but that helped me find the culprit. I opened up windows 2000 services and found that the DHCP client had been disable for some reason. I took this for granted because it's usually working but that was my mistake and checking a few simple things to begin with could have saved me 2 hours of work.
The moral is sometimes the most puzzling problems often have the simplest solutions. Be sure to check settings and services before you hack away at the problem more. Think simple first then build up from there. Hope that helps someone out there.
A friend of mine was having problems with his new wireless network so i went over to investigate. His laptop was getting full signal from the router and the desktop he had was working properly with his Linksys router (a BEFW11s4 if i remember correctly). However, the laptop was not getting through the router nor was it getting an IP address from the router. My first thought was to update the drivers on the card, which i did easily via a floppy. My second thought was possibly a faulty card so i tried it out on my laptop...worked perfectly. I googled and found results that said antivirus software could be causing the problem and that i should edit the registry and remove keys bound to DHCP. Ah, DHCP, the one thing i took for granted. I tried the registry edit with no luck but that helped me find the culprit. I opened up windows 2000 services and found that the DHCP client had been disable for some reason. I took this for granted because it's usually working but that was my mistake and checking a few simple things to begin with could have saved me 2 hours of work.
The moral is sometimes the most puzzling problems often have the simplest solutions. Be sure to check settings and services before you hack away at the problem more. Think simple first then build up from there. Hope that helps someone out there.