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Problems with new wireless card

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HombrePequeno

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My parents have a wireless network set up at their house and almost everything works fine. Right now they have a laptop hooked up to it and are trying to get their PC working on the wireless network. I installed the card and it connects to the access point but it says "internet cannot be found." I set it to assign the IP address, default gateway, etc. automatically but it doesn't appear to be doing that.

Anybody have any ideas on what's wrong?

Edit: When I run IPConfig, it doesn't give any info on DNS or default gateway.

The IPConfig info is:

Connection-specific DNS suffix:
Physical Address: 00-12-17-64-6D-79
DHCP Enabled: Yes
Autoconfig Enabled: Yes
Autoconfig IP Address: 169.254.xx.xx
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway:
 
Set a static IP and see if it works.
If it does, double check to see if you're running out of IPs in DHCP scope.
If it doesn't, check other settings like encryption, MAC filter, etc.
 
Are you saying besides this laptop, everything else can connect to the AP via wireless fine?
If that's the case, do a site survey from the other machines and make sure no other AP's have the same SSID or channel.

Also, try the wireless card in question at a different location. If you can't connect to any AP anywhere, the card or driver is bad.
 
Originally posted by: Cooky
Are you saying besides this laptop, everything else can connect to the AP via wireless fine?
If that's the case, do a site survey from the other machines and make sure no other AP's have the same SSID or channel.

Also, try the wireless card in question at a different location. If you can't connect to any AP anywhere, the card or driver is bad.
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No the laptop works fine, it's the PC that is having trouble. We live in a pretty remote place so there is only one access point that shows up. I don't think it's a problem with the SSID. I don't think the card is bad because this is the second card we have tried and we've had the same problem with both of them. It says it connects to the AP but it won't connect to the internet. The connection will say limmited or no connectivity.
 
turn all encryption off, turn off (if on) Mac filtering, Turn on SSID, try to connect
if it fails, move the box right next to the AP and try again


When it works, start adding stuff one at a time (turn ssid off, test, turn mac filter on, check, turn encryption on as WEP128, check, move to WPA or anything else, check)
 
For some reason I can't seem to connect to the AP through the default IP address. However, there is no encryption or MAC filtering at all on the AP. I guess I'll try moving the box closer to the AP but I'm not sure how much that will do considering the signal strength is around 95%.
 
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