Windows XP Networking problems (wireless)

[johnyaya]

Need some help fellas.
Set up a home network (oh joy) last night. Got my buddies computer up and running
fine, he's hard wired into a DLink Wireless router (which is hooked up to a cable modem).

He bought a wireless usb adapter for his roommate (fairly hot chick 😉 ). At first, without
doing much of anything, her PC picked up a valid IP via DHCP. But it wouldn't surf the
web - it still had settings for a dial up modem and that was causing it to goof up.
I tried running the Internet Connections wizard or whatever (first mistake) and after that,
I couldn't get a valid IP address - only 169.254.whatever.
I assigned the network adapter a static IP and it picks up that static IP fine (I confirmed
that on both the router's logs and her PC), but when I went to surf the web, I still got
nothing.

I was able to ping the router and the other PC in the room just fine, but not yahoo.com.
I thought it might be DNS issues, but I also specified the DNS settings from his cable co.
Any ideas?

 

[JackMDS]

May be this can Help:

Link: Wireless - Basic Configuration.

Link: Wireless Security for the Home User.

Link to: Extending the Distance of Entry Level Wireless Network.

:sun:

 

[johnyaya]

Hrmm...I'll check those out when I go over there later.

I forgot to mention, it acted the same with WEP turned on/off.
Only when I switched to static IP did it actually get a valid (192.168)
IP and was able to ping the router. Otherwise, nada.