Centrino Laptop cannot receive from Draytek 2200w

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I have a draytek 2200w wlan/isdn router which has worked fine against
win2k and winme machines with usb wlan and dlink 650 wlan cards.

I have added a winxp centrino laptop and the built-in wlan card (intel
2100 3B) always finds the access point but is very, very unreliable in
making or maintaining a connection.

i have tried a nokia d211 and whilst it gets a dhcp address it cannot
receive or send anything.

i have tried the dlink 650 wlan card which works perfectly every time.

is this something to do with the age of the draytek 2200w router?
its on firmware v2.2. is this router truly 802.11b compatible??
i've turned off wep, hidden id's, etc. to get right back to basics.

i turned winxp zero config off in services and that stopped the
centrino wlan card from working at all.

does anyone have any suggestions?
 
your not meant to turn off the wirless zero config service
if you r using wirless cards rather set it to automatic so
every time u rebooot it should work ive used the dlink
650+ and its work pretty good but u need to ensure wirless
zero service is up and working
 
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I have a draytek 2200w wlan/isdn router which has worked fine against
win2k and winme machines with usb wlan and dlink 650 wlan cards.

I have added a winxp centrino laptop and the built-in wlan card (intel
2100 3B) always finds the access point but is very, very unreliable in
making or maintaining a connection.

i have tried a nokia d211 and whilst it gets a dhcp address it cannot
receive or send anything.

i have tried the dlink 650 wlan card which works perfectly every time.

is this something to do with the age of the draytek 2200w router?
its on firmware v2.2. is this router truly 802.11b compatible??
i've turned off wep, hidden id's, etc. to get right back to basics.

i turned winxp zero config off in services and that stopped the
centrino wlan card from working at all.

does anyone have any suggestions?
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Contact your laptop support or their web site. There *are* difficulties
reported with the Intel wireless, and there might be a driver, etc.,
update you need to apply. If you disable WZC, you need to set up the
properties of the card in device manager manually, or use the interface
application in control panel (if it has one). This might be an option,
but contact support first. There have been reports on
alt.internet.wireless that WEP is required in some cases, and that the
internal antenna is diconnected out of the box also.

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Quaoar said:
Contact your laptop support or their web site. There *are* difficulties
reported with the Intel wireless, and there might be a driver, etc.,
update you need to apply. If you disable WZC, you need to set up the
properties of the card in device manager manually, or use the interface
application in control panel (if it has one). This might be an option,
but contact support first. There have been reports on
alt.internet.wireless that WEP is required in some cases, and that the
internal antenna is diconnected out of the box also.
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Thanks for your suggestions.
The crazy thing about this is that the intel 2100 has occassionally
worked. (both with and without WZC).
I'm using driver v1.2.0.56 and have loaded the intel proset
configuartion tool.
Toshiba site only has v1.1.60

As I said the Intel 2100 ALWAYS finds the AP and gets a DHCP IP
address!
It just very rarely is able to receive anything from the draytek AP.
I've read that Netgear AP's don't work with the intel 2100 so I
suspect its a driver/firmware problem with the intel, esp. given I
have occassionally seen it work.

My old Dlink 650 WLAN card works every time in the toshiba laptop.

I suppose my appeal is to anyone that has a draytek vigor 2200w fw
v2.2 working with an intel 2100 wlan card?
 
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