Hi,
I can't get a friends laptop to connect to my d link wireless router. All the settings seem to be the same as our laptop, another Dell with XP Pro and a PC-Card. His laptop (XP Home) finds my network, aquires the address and says connected, firewalled in network connections as well as from the sys tray ballon, but it can't ping the router 192.168.0.1 or get online. There is no encryption set on the router. Is there a setting that may only make his computer connect to an encrypted router ? Couldn't seem to find any wirless encryption options for his PC Card.
On our laptop which connects fine, in Network Connections, the icon reads "Enabled, Firewalled", unlike his that reads "Connected, Firewalled". Is this an indication that something is still not set correctly ? Is this why it doesn't connect ?
The only other difference that I see between the two laptops is that under the Wireless Networks tab in Properties, our computer lists our network in the top half of the window, under Available Networks: His computer just shows the buton View Available Networks, which when clicked on, shows the network named "default" as Connected with a star, and with 5 bars of signal. It also lists it as an Unsecured wireless network, open access.
I verified that his Pc Card, TrueMobile 1150 is an 11b, like my router.
As far as I know, his laptop worked ok at his house. He brougt it over because some spyware was throwing boxes at him and locking up his screen. I installed/removed stuff with adaware, spybot, and housecall, and removed programs not needed, cleaned temp files. Seems to be running well now, except for the wireless connectivity. I'm just stumped. After hours on this, I can use some suggestions. Thanks.
I can't get a friends laptop to connect to my d link wireless router. All the settings seem to be the same as our laptop, another Dell with XP Pro and a PC-Card. His laptop (XP Home) finds my network, aquires the address and says connected, firewalled in network connections as well as from the sys tray ballon, but it can't ping the router 192.168.0.1 or get online. There is no encryption set on the router. Is there a setting that may only make his computer connect to an encrypted router ? Couldn't seem to find any wirless encryption options for his PC Card.
On our laptop which connects fine, in Network Connections, the icon reads "Enabled, Firewalled", unlike his that reads "Connected, Firewalled". Is this an indication that something is still not set correctly ? Is this why it doesn't connect ?
The only other difference that I see between the two laptops is that under the Wireless Networks tab in Properties, our computer lists our network in the top half of the window, under Available Networks: His computer just shows the buton View Available Networks, which when clicked on, shows the network named "default" as Connected with a star, and with 5 bars of signal. It also lists it as an Unsecured wireless network, open access.
I verified that his Pc Card, TrueMobile 1150 is an 11b, like my router.
As far as I know, his laptop worked ok at his house. He brougt it over because some spyware was throwing boxes at him and locking up his screen. I installed/removed stuff with adaware, spybot, and housecall, and removed programs not needed, cleaned temp files. Seems to be running well now, except for the wireless connectivity. I'm just stumped. After hours on this, I can use some suggestions. Thanks.