HUGE Problem. Need a little help??

DVNT1 · December 18th, 2001, 08:46 AM

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Should i connect that and see if it pings

Yea, give it a try. After you have the wireless card in and the network wire removed open a command prompt... (for XP) type ipconfig /release wait a momment fo the IP addresses to be released...then type ipconfig /renew. This should get an IP address for the wireless NIC.

Then try your ping test to the router's LAN IP address.

kruseman · December 19th, 2001, 01:10 AM

i might get at it tomorrow dvnt, but i have surgery, and i'll see how i'm feeling. I should have it done by thursday, and i'll reply with the results. Thanks for all the replies everyone. This is much appreciated.

kruseman

DVNT1 · December 19th, 2001, 07:40 AM

Hope the surgery goes well! We'll still be here when you get back.

kruseman · December 20th, 2001, 04:22 PM

hey dvnt, just tried with the wireless, and they don't ping each other, they ping the router though. any ideas? one of the ip addresses is 192.168.1.3, and the other is 192.168.1.100, does that matter?

Thanks
kruseman

DVNT1 · December 20th, 2001, 04:40 PM

Do you mean the desktop can ping the router and the wireless client can ping the router? Just not desktop to wireless or wireless to desktop?

kruseman · December 20th, 2001, 04:42 PM

yes, but they can ping each other when i'm not using the wireless. also, when i try the wireless, there is no interenet at all.

kruseman

DVNT1 · December 20th, 2001, 04:54 PM

Have you already set the "Desktop Residential Gateway" to use LAN infrastructure in the RG setup sofware?

So this needs done if it hasn't been... see http://www.orinocowireless.com/temp...&envelope=222#0

kruseman · December 20th, 2001, 09:37 PM

i did that and nothing changed. The funny thing about all this is, that the thing in the task manager makes it look like the computer is connected through a wireless connection, but when i click on the internet, it says page cannot be displayed. I'm downloading the newest drivers from that site to see if that will help maybe

kruseman

DVNT1 · December 21st, 2001, 08:34 AM

If the ping fails then the Internet should fail.

I believe the task manager thing indicates your wireless signal strength. This does not indicate the IP routing, DNS, etc... are correct.

After that settni gchange in the RG you need to reboot the wireless PC. After reboot, to make sure the cabled NIC isn't causing a routing problem, open a Command Prompt and run IPCONFIG /release and then run IPconfig /renew. Then test your ping to an Internet IP address such as 198.6.245.100 (which is just some DNS server on the Internet).

If this works, then ping a HOST name like www.usatoday.com

surreal · December 21st, 2001, 08:51 AM

Have you tried tossing everything and starting fresh? I know it sounds ridiculous.. but mine was sooo goofed up tring to fix it

I still don't know what happened, I tossed it redid everything.. and it didn't work

pinged everyone.. and it did..

Now everyones happy,..