Wireless to existing network problem

[nachomc]

Hi,
I've spent the last two days reading HowTo's, tutorials, and everything I found about installing Wireless networks, but I still can't make it. The situation is the following.

I have an office in a building with its own LAN network. I had only one computer, connected to the ethernet socket on the wall. I was using 192.168.10.87 as IP, 255.255.255.0 as subnet mask, and 192.168.10.1 as gateway.

I bought a notebook with integrated WiFi, so I decided to buy a PCI wireless card for the PC, and an Access Point.

I configured the Access Point with the above values, and the PC with another IP in the same subnet (192.168.10.88, wich works if I use it connected to the wired LAN) I successfully connected the PC to the access point (I can access the web interface), but I can't get the PC to access to the internet. I tried using the AP's IP as gateway in the PC, but that doesn't work neither.

I would greatly appreciate some help.

 

[blinkbears]

I had this same problem a while back, i'm going to try and remember what I tried. Don't know what kind of setup you have but here is what i did.

I have an older laptop so I have only 1 PCMCIA slot. I had my wired PCMCIA ethernet card that i was using for a while and I decided to switch over and go wireless. So I bought a linksys wireless ethernet card and a linksys AP. I could get successfully get the AP connected to the PC but not to the internet. What I did was went into my Network Control Panel. Clciked on my WIRED Ethernet card adapter (not tcp/ip) and clicked properties. Selected Advanced and set the Value at 10BaseT. Restarted and magically it worked. Let me know how this works for you.

 

[nachomc]

Thanks for answering, but I'm afraid your experience is not applicable to my case. I don't have the option to set the network to 10BaseT.

 

[amdskip]

Does your network have DHCP or are your IP addresses hard coded into your machines?

 

[nachomc]

No DHCP, I guess that would make it a little easier. I used the IP from the PC in the AP. And I'm not limited to that IP, as I tried consecutive IPs from the same subnet in the wired network and it worked.

 

[amdskip]

So I take it that the access point doesn't do DHCP. I would get a router, would make things easier.

If it does do DHCP, theres no need to have IP's hardcoded into the machines feeding off of it.

 

[JackMDS]

You have to find out from the building people what is that they feed into your Office.

They might give you only one static IP.

Before you spend more money find exactly what the nature of the connection is, and make sure that there is No objections to Route it for you internal use.

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