wireless adapters

[cannothandle]

Please help!!! I'm a tech support and I handle wireless products. How do I solve this?? Status is already connected, excellent signal strength. But when I check my IP address I get an invalid one. Something like 169.255.x.x. One more thing, how do you solve intermittent wireless connections??? thanks.

 

[bcastner]

For the first problem you obviously are not getting DHCP services from the router. Assuming your TCP/IP properties are set to obtain an IP address automaticly, it is likely you either do not have Client for Microsoft Networking installed, or you are not logging in. Even with a blank or empty password you cannot hit Escape or Cancel at the logon screen, you must hit Enter or Okay.

The other possibility is that your WEP key is incorrect.

For the second problem there are multiple possible causes. In order of likeliehood:

1. You have 802.1x authentication enabled on the client. Disable it.
2. You need a driver update
3. You have not selected a Preferred Network. See Microsoft's KB article on this:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q302088

 

[cannothandle]

what should be my primary logon???

 

[bcastner]

Windows Logon

 

[AndyWatt]

I found that my Linksys WPC54G wireless card doesn't obtain an IP address until AFTER Windows has logged-on. (What had they been smoking when they came up with that idea?)

I've found that if I log-on, suffer the "No domain server" message then log off then back on again I get a valid IP address. Of course you could use WINIPCFG instead...

Regards,

Andy

"Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boutroux

 

[eihtur]

cannothandle,

why dont you set a static IP on the computer?

this 169.254.xx.xx...this means that your computer is getting an invalid IP...

assign static IP...well thats if your using a router....



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