Wireless Card hassles

[chrisdab]

I am trying to switch my router and wireless card between two computers. After lots of hassle installing wireless cards before, I figured I could handle any problems. Guess not.

I have a netgear MR314 router and a Linksys WMP11 wireless card. Both systems use winxp SP2. I installed the wireless card on my 2nd computer, set the essid, WEP encryption, channel, and password. Everything seemed ok, yet the wireless card cant find the IP address. I do show a good signal to the router. I check ipconfig and it shows some 169.xxx IP. So I go into TCP/IP and manually change the ip for the card to 192.168.0.1 with 255.255.255.0 subnet. Now everything seems ok it says its connected and I show a good signal. But I cant surf the web or access my router config page.

Then I try other options. I connect the router to a network bridge connected to a 1394 connection. I have no idea what a network bridge or a 1394 connection does. It doesnt work. Finally I uninstall the driver and the reinstall it before putting in the card thinking putting in the card first might cause the problems. It doesnt work either. What am I doing wrong?

 

[nweaver]

when you associate and show good signal, but fail to get an IP, it is (almost) always related to encryption schema. Turn WEP off on the AP and card, check to see if it works. If it does, then add it back in, and type very carefully

 

[JackMDS]

Leave alone the 1394 it is for Firewire (if you do not use Firewire you can disable it in the Device manger).

Look at the device manager and uninstall the Wireless Card Drivers.

Switch off the computer, take out the Wireless Card, and reboot one time with No card. Switch off, insert the card. Switch ON and reinstall the Wireless Card's Drivers.

This might help in the configuration of the Wireless.

Link to: Wireless - Basic Configuration.

Link to: Wireless Security for the Home User.

This is concerning Strong Signal and connect, http://www.ezlan.net/wbars.html

In General, you can debug the Network Settings of a computer by following these steps.

Step One. Check the Network parameters in the Computer?s Device Manager. Make sure that the drivers are installed correctly; there is No IRQ conflict, and No Ghost installation. http://www.ezlan.net/faq#ghost

Step Two Verify Basic network setting in the OS: http://www.ezlan.net/Installing#verify
If the above two Steps indicates that every thing looks good but functionally it does not work.

Step Three. Check (and repair if necessary) the Socket Layers, Winsock, and or refresh the TCP/IP Stack. http://www.ezlan.net/clean#refreshnet

If need to Reinstall; Log to this page it have a lot of links to instructions for Windows Network Installation - http://www.ezlan.net/Installing.html

:sun:

 

[chrisdab]

I found out that the problem has to do with WEP encrypton but I cant seem to find out the solution. If I turn off WEP on wifi card and the router it works fine. lets say I set the password to 'password' turn it to 128 bit encryption, put it on key 1 set channel to 6. For my wireless card, I go to my wireless PCI card properties, set the encryption to 128 bit and set the password to 'password'. In the wireless network properties. I go to my network 'chrisdab' properties. In there under the first tab, I have the network authentication set to open, data encryption set to WEP, network key set to 'password' key index set to 1. Under authentication tab, IEEE 802.1x is not checked. With these settings I get no data. With WEP disabled I do get data.

Thanks nweaver for helping me figure out its WEP