This may seem like an odd situation...because it is. Here's the story:
I originally got an MN-740 game adapter off of eBay, for exactly what it's meant for. Then I built a custom PC, and wanted Internet on it of course, but upstairs where there's no modem. So I took the MN-740 off my game console, powered it up and plugged it into my computer, and bang, it worked. I had Internet. But the only thing that bugged me was since it was meant for a game console, not a computer, it didn't come with PC software. Also, it connects through the Ethernet port on my motherboard, not a USB port. So because of those factors, my comp picked it up as a standard wired LAN connection. This annoyed me, so I did some research, and found it is the same thing as D-Link's DGL-3420; D-Link made the MN-740. I also found out how to flash the firmware from Microsoft's to the DGL-3420's. I thought that maybe this would allow me to configure the device more appropriately on a computer, because I had seen screenshots of the PC config GUI. All in all, the flash was successful, but I could not get into the device. My IP was probably out of range, seeing that the D-Link defaults to 192.168.0.30, and mine was 192.168.2.150+.
So. My question is. Is there any way to get an ethernetted wireless connection like mine, to show up in Windows as a wireless network?
I originally got an MN-740 game adapter off of eBay, for exactly what it's meant for. Then I built a custom PC, and wanted Internet on it of course, but upstairs where there's no modem. So I took the MN-740 off my game console, powered it up and plugged it into my computer, and bang, it worked. I had Internet. But the only thing that bugged me was since it was meant for a game console, not a computer, it didn't come with PC software. Also, it connects through the Ethernet port on my motherboard, not a USB port. So because of those factors, my comp picked it up as a standard wired LAN connection. This annoyed me, so I did some research, and found it is the same thing as D-Link's DGL-3420; D-Link made the MN-740. I also found out how to flash the firmware from Microsoft's to the DGL-3420's. I thought that maybe this would allow me to configure the device more appropriately on a computer, because I had seen screenshots of the PC config GUI. All in all, the flash was successful, but I could not get into the device. My IP was probably out of range, seeing that the D-Link defaults to 192.168.0.30, and mine was 192.168.2.150+.
So. My question is. Is there any way to get an ethernetted wireless connection like mine, to show up in Windows as a wireless network?
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