Need help - Problem w DLink DWL650 under XP

SoulAssassin

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So finally decided to go the wireless route and picked up a new DWL-650 (only $40 this week at Office Max btw) card for my laptop. Slap it in, install the latest XP drivers off the website and everything appears fine. Getting a very good/excellent signal. Right click on the network connection in the sys tray and try to view available networks. Nothing. Nada. Zero. Everything is greyed out. Ipconfig release/renew is unsuccessful. I know the access point is configured right, I'm actually trying it at my neighbors house until I find the right price.

Any suggestions. This is my first attempting using 802.11b under XP. I've used it under 2K before and configured the SSID/channel using a manuf. supplied application. Everything I've read so far led me to believe that it's all in the box w XP.

Thoughts? Thanks in advance.
 

Baldy18

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Hey I just got one of those cards also. Actually I have the DWL-650+ since Best Buy had it on sale a couple weeks ago.

You should be able to double-click on the WLAN monitor meter in the system tray. Then in the window that opens up you can click on the configuration button on the left side and set your SSID there so that it is the same as the SSID in the router. That is how it works for me in Windows 2K with the drivers from off the cd so I don't think XP will be all that different.
 

SoulAssassin

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Yeah, that's the way it works under 2K. But I'm pretty sure it's diff in XP. The drivers came only as an .inf file and a handful of .sys files, point Windoze at the folder and it installs the files. There's no seperate install for anything like what 2K has.

Hmmm...
 

Migroo

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Baldy18 is right, get the drivers.

I had to setup a DLink card under XP and is was very different to Windows 2k.
 

SoulAssassin

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Should have clarified, it is an .exe but it's just a self-extracting zip file that gives you the other files I referred to. There's no install application.

Migroo - Did it install a vendor configuration utility under XP or are you using the native wireless support?

BTW, I tried loading the w2k drivers to use that config utility and it blue screened like a champ.
 

Uconn411

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I had the exact same problem. Tried to network a WinXP notebook with Win2000 and Win98 computers. I had to install NetBEUI off of the WinXP cd. That did the trick. Make sure its installed on every PC you are networking.