setting up wireless router as A.P.

[QueBert]

was trying to turn a router into an A.P. today, it was almost working but I had forgotten to enable WEP so it could connect the the other router. Once I figured this out I went back into the4 room and booted XP and then it was coming up with my network icon and the ! on it saying limited or no connectivity. I tried hard resetting the router no dice, I rebooted, unplugged the router still no dice. I'm having a huge brain fart but what can I do to fix this? if i go into the network settings and try to repair the IP nada happens. ipconfig is showing a weird IP, like 168.254.180.53 or something. I cannot log on to the router to re-set it up. the IP it's giving me, not sure where it's coming from, I can ping it but can't connect to it.

So I booted to Vista to try it from there, but of course device manager is saying there's a problem with the driver for the network card (built in P35 one) and I can't get online to download the new driver without first having internet access.

What am I missing here? I would say my networking ability is pretty decent but I'm sure not coming up with what's the obvious answer here.

 

[JackMDS]

168.254.180.53 means that it can not get an IP.

Probably because it can not connect to the Router to get one from the Router's DHCP.

Hard reset the Router look for the default setting in the Router's manual and reconfigure the Router.

It has to be done with wire not wireless.

 

[QueBert]

it was working previously, you think that was just dumb luck I was able to get an IP and connect to the router to configure it? just had 1 ethernet coard going from my nic port to the a LAN plug on the router. I'll try to see if I can get it set up on the wired connection, somebodies on it and playing an MMO and they never log off so haha I hope I can get on tonight.

thanks for the advice, I figured it would end up needing to be something like this.