hello everyone hope your all doing well, my uncle gave me a wireless router (its a dlink DI524) and a wireless pci card (its a DWL-G520), now i got everything setup and what not, 4 computers are wired and they connect and browse the internet etc, i also got a dell laptop which connects through the wireless and works great, now i fixed up an old computer i had lying around to let my grandma use, so i installed windows 98se and got it all set up, i installed the wireless card in it and it works fine, it see the network and connects to it but i cant browse the internet, when i open a dos prompt and type in ipconfig /all it shows no gateway and the ip address seems to be way wrong, if anyone has any advice on this please let me know and thank you for your time
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations IamaSherpa on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
problems connecting to wireless router
- Thread starter luke9511
- Start date
Beowulf005
Technical User
- Apr 5, 2005
- 640
Make sure the IP is not static. What ip is it showing?
When frustrated remember, in the computer world there is almost always a backdoor.
When frustrated remember, in the computer world there is almost always a backdoor.
- Thread starter
- #3
- Thread starter
- #5
You said in your first post, "when i open a dos prompt and type in ipconfig /all it shows no gateway and the ip address seems to be way wrong...". You then went on later to say, "the computer is getting the ip address from the router which is 192.168.2.102 ...".
Are you saying 192.168.2.102 is "way wrong", i.e. totally the wrong range for your router? Or are you saying that typing in "ipconfig /all" gives a totally different IP?
The fact that you're not seeing any gateway IP suggests Windows 98 is not communicating with, or is not able to set up the network interface correctly on this wireless card.
Is the card new? Maybe it's faulty, or perhaps just plain incompatible with Windows 98 which is, after all, a few years old now... Try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, or change the card for a different type.
ROGER - G0AOZ.
Are you saying 192.168.2.102 is "way wrong", i.e. totally the wrong range for your router? Or are you saying that typing in "ipconfig /all" gives a totally different IP?
The fact that you're not seeing any gateway IP suggests Windows 98 is not communicating with, or is not able to set up the network interface correctly on this wireless card.
Is the card new? Maybe it's faulty, or perhaps just plain incompatible with Windows 98 which is, after all, a few years old now... Try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, or change the card for a different type.
ROGER - G0AOZ.
- Thread starter
- #7
The 169.254.xxx.xxx address is default for windows to hand out when it cannot find a dhcp server. At the Start/Run window, type in winipcfg and choose your card in the list, release, renew. If you do not see your card in there, Windows is not properly seeing it. If it is there it should show a new ip and gateway matching your configuration.
The test continues...
The test continues...
You could manually set an IP address outside the router DHCP range but in the same subnet then attempt to ping the router. This would at least show connectivity.
Is there any security set up on the router that you have overlooked on the SE?
Is there a configuration utility for the wireless card? Is there anything in it that is significantly different than what the DELL has?
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
Is there any security set up on the router that you have overlooked on the SE?
Is there a configuration utility for the wireless card? Is there anything in it that is significantly different than what the DELL has?
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
If you have security set on the router, i.e. WEP, WPA etc., then temporarily knock it off to check that this isn't causing an issue with the WIN98 machine. Also, are you running a software firewall on the WIN98 machine, like Zone Alarm, for instance? This might be preventing connection unless set up correctly.
You've told us the card works elsewhere, so it could still come down to incompatibility with Windows 98 on this particular hardware...
ROGER - G0AOZ.
You've told us the card works elsewhere, so it could still come down to incompatibility with Windows 98 on this particular hardware...
ROGER - G0AOZ.
- Thread starter
- #11
- Thread starter
- #12
Sounds like something didn't set up correctly.
My first step would be to kill the adapter, which will kill networking, then reinstall.
You've proven the card works. So the failure appears to be in the DHCP request. But you also need to look into the router to verify that you have room for a new machine in the IP address range.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
My first step would be to kill the adapter, which will kill networking, then reinstall.
You've proven the card works. So the failure appears to be in the DHCP request. But you also need to look into the router to verify that you have room for a new machine in the IP address range.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
Beowulf005
Technical User
- Apr 5, 2005
- 640
What happens when you try a wired connection?
When frustrated remember, in the computer world there is almost always a backdoor.
When frustrated remember, in the computer world there is almost always a backdoor.
- Thread starter
- #15
Beowulf005
Technical User
- Apr 5, 2005
- 640
What happens when you try the wired connected on the computer giving you the issue?
Can you connect to a different wireless network?
Can any other wireless computer connnect to this network?
Was the xp install an upgrade or clean install?
When frustrated remember, in the computer world there is almost always a backdoor.
Can you connect to a different wireless network?
Can any other wireless computer connnect to this network?
Was the xp install an upgrade or clean install?
When frustrated remember, in the computer world there is almost always a backdoor.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question
- Locked
- Question