ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

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Ion Control

OK. That felt good. :) I've spent 6 hours today trying to get basic
functionality out of my wireless 11g card to no avail. Here's the deal
(some of this is a repeat of an earlier post): I'm trying to network a Dell
laptop using a NetGear WG511 wireless 11b/g card. I have a NetGear WGR614v1
router. With wires, everything works perfectly. Network is fine. All the
computers are happy, etc, etc, etc. When I change one of the wired laptop
to the wireless card, the following things happen:

The SSID shows up and I attempt to connect using my 128-bit key. Things are
fine. The NetGear utility shows a successful connection. I try to access
the network (names are correct) and nothing happens. Even after I disable
each and every firewall, I still can't see the network and visa versa,
eventhough everything shows that I'm connected. I reboot, thinking that
things need to refresh and here's where things get irritating. The WG511
connects on startup for about 10 seconds then disconnects and starts
scanning. After a few minutes, it finds the connection but them promptly
loses it. After this, no amount of manual connecting etc will work.

What's going on?

I've tried using the router as a DHCP server and just using fixed IPs on
everything. I've tried changing network names and disabling the wired
network connections. No amount of tweaking works. I can pull up the
wireless network menu and there's my SSID broadcasting for al the world to
see but my wireless card will NOT connect! I'm ready to start throwing
things, so any help is appreciated. I've never been this frustrated in my
life. :P

Thanks for your words of wisdom.
-Carl J. Stoneham
 
OK. More info. I noticed that the card was assigning it's own "private
address" so I double-checked and went back to assigning an IP address. I
paid close attention to the subnet mask in case I had screwed that up. That
seemed to work. The card will now hold the conneciton. Still, that means
DHCP from the router failed for some reason. Any ideas?

I'm still working on the network part, but I manually enabled NetBIOS which
usually seems to work when I encouter wired problems. I'm gonna reboot and
see what happens...
 
OK. After closer inspection, I found that the router had the SPI firewall
engaged. Since it's not the gateway to the internet (the ICS connection
from my laptop is, which has a oftware firewall) I disabled it. I also made
a few other changes, so I'm not sure if the SPI firewall was the source of
my difficulties, but things seem to be working fine now :P

Anyway, if you read all this, thanks :) Enjoy the new year!
 
Ion said:
OK. After closer inspection, I found that the router had the SPI
firewall engaged. Since it's not the gateway to the internet (the
ICS connection from my laptop is, which has a oftware firewall) I
disabled it. I also made a few other changes, so I'm not sure if the
SPI firewall was the source of my difficulties, but things seem to be
working fine now :P

Anyway, if you read all this, thanks :) Enjoy the new year!
Click to expand...

OK, perhaps I am confused with your setup. You have a wireless router,
why are you not using the router as the gateway? ICS is not required if
you connect all computers wired or wireless to the router and the router
to the modem.

Q
 
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