Wireless connection is fine, but programs can't connect to the internet!

[poohhairt]

I'm trying to help my roommate get his wireless connection working. I have been conneced wirelessly without any problems, and there are two computers connected with a wire.

He has a sony laptop running XP, about 2 years old. He's using a D-link notebook adapter to connect. Everything looks fine, it can "connect" and have a strong signal, yet no programs can see the internet. The odd thing is that one time it worked for about 30 seconds, but nothing before or after. WEP is disabled, most everything else is set to "get automatically, etc." to match my settings.

He can get online just fine when he plugs into the router, but nothing wireless. We tried installing my USB adapter and had the same problem. We tried disabling his firewall with no results. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-Aaron

 

[sfreeman]

I am having the same problem ....hope someone comes up with an answer

 

[lightweight]

Is this a wireless router or are you using a router with a separate access point? The two PC's are connected to the ports on the switch and can they access the internet, outside of the router? With your wireless clients, can you ping your access point successfully?

 

[Tbyte]

I had a similar problem with my Dlink pci card. I solved it by disabling the XP wireless software and just using the boingo that was shipped w/card. Things works fine now except for the crappy antenna.

 

[Sideswipe001]

Are you picking up an IP address on his laptop? Have you updated the drivers he's using to the latest ones?

 

[Qwest]

i am having the exact same problem except i have 4 clients, 1 wired, 3 wireless. however, only 1 wireless client isnt able to connect to the internet. it gets an ip, able to ping the router, ip are all static, assigned.

gateway as well as DNS is identical on all systems.