Problem with wireless card in w2k

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Hi, I have just installed win2000 professional. I have a wireless
card Conceptronic C54C. The thing is that I installed the drivers,
utility program, etc. and everything works fine (the card is
activated, etc). I have also correctly set ip address, dns, etc.
The problem is that the card only sends packets! I cannot
receive a single packet. What could that be?
Strangely, I installed winXP on that machine just to test if the
network card works ok (because I want to install win2k) and
in winXP it works perfectly!
I thought about a driver problem, upgraded the drivers to
the latest found in vendor's site. Same result.
I can only ping to localhost. Any other ip address doesn't work
(I get time out)

Any help, pointer, etc?
TIA!
 
notme said:
Hi, I have just installed win2000 professional. I have a wireless
card Conceptronic C54C. The thing is that I installed the drivers,
utility program, etc. and everything works fine (the card is
activated, etc). I have also correctly set ip address, dns, etc.
The problem is that the card only sends packets! I cannot
receive a single packet. What could that be?
Strangely, I installed winXP on that machine just to test if the
network card works ok (because I want to install win2k) and
in winXP it works perfectly!
I thought about a driver problem, upgraded the drivers to
the latest found in vendor's site. Same result.
I can only ping to localhost. Any other ip address doesn't work
(I get time out)

Any help, pointer, etc?
TIA!
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Hello

If you can jsut ping the localhost, that doesnt means that card only
send packets and cannot receive packets.

Post here the contents of *ipconfig /all*. Other thing is, how many
computers
are there on your network.

--
Winners dont do different things, they do things differently.

Madhur Ahuja
India

Homepage : http://madhur.netfirms.com
Email : madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com
 
Hi, I have just installed win2000 professional. I have a wireless
If you can jsut ping the localhost, that doesnt means that card only
send packets and cannot receive packets.
Click to expand...

I said I don't receive any packet based on the properties of my conection
tooltip (which says xxx packets sent, 0 received)
Post here the contents of *ipconfig /all*. Other thing is, how many
computers
are there on your network.
Click to expand...

So far there're two machines: the one I'm writing this (winXP), and this
other
machine that cannot get connected. As I said before, if I install winXP on
that machine, the card works perfectly. I just installed service pack 4,
without
any result...
Here are the contents of ipconfig / all (translated to english the best I
could):

Hostname . . . . . . . . . : xyz
Main DNS suffix . . . . . . :
Node type . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
Routing enabled . . . . .: No
WINS Proxy enabled. . . . . : No



Description. . . . . . . . . . . : Conceptronic 54g
Physical address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP enabled. . . . . . . . . : No
IP address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100
Netmask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Gateway : 192.168.1.1
DNS servers . . . . . . . . . .: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (both valid dns server
addresses)

Still don't know what to do :-(
The report seems to be fine. I assign static ip addresses in my lan, the gw
address is correct, etc...
Maybe there's an issue with the card, that is not supported in w2k but
it is in winXP?

Any help is really appreciated. If you need further details, let me know.

TIA.
 
Description. . . . . . . . . . . : Conceptronic 54g
Physical address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP enabled. . . . . . . . . : No
IP address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100
Netmask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Gateway : 192.168.1.1
DNS servers . . . . . . . . . .: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (both valid dns server
addresses)

Still don't know what to do :-(
The report seems to be fine. I assign static ip addresses in my lan, the gw
address is correct, etc...
Maybe there's an issue with the card, that is not supported in w2k but
it is in winXP?
Click to expand...

One other clue. If I do ping 127.0.0.1, everything is fine,
but if I do ping 192.168.1.100 (the ip assigned by me) then
I get a "host unreachable" error...
 
notme said:
One other clue. If I do ping 127.0.0.1, everything is fine,
but if I do ping 192.168.1.100 (the ip assigned by me) then
I get a "host unreachable" error...
Click to expand...

Interesting, this could only happen if the ipconfig /all reports
cable disconnected. I have some questions:

* Are both computers in the same subnet i.e. 192.168.1.*.
* Since you specified that you have 2 computers, what's the gateway is
for, try removing it.
* Paste the result of *route print* , here. If it doesnt involves the routes
involving 192.168.1.* then you have a wiring problem rather than software
problem.


--
Winners dont do different things, they do things differently.

Madhur Ahuja
India

Homepage : http://madhur.netfirms.com
Email : madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com
 
Description. . . . . . . . . . . : Conceptronic 54g
Interesting, this could only happen if the ipconfig /all reports
cable disconnected. I have some questions:
Click to expand...

This is a wireless network!
* Are both computers in the same subnet i.e. 192.168.1.*.
Click to expand...

Yes, one is .100 and the other one .101
The gateway is 192.168.1.1
* Since you specified that you have 2 computers, what's the gateway is
for, try removing it.
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In fact is a modem router (I said gateway because that's how you configure
it in windows) which I have for my ADSL conection... (I have one other
laptop,
but I didn't use it while doing this..)
* Paste the result of *route print* , here. If it doesnt involves the routes
involving 192.168.1.* then you have a wiring problem rather than software
problem.
Click to expand...

No wires involved...and the signal strength is 80%... windows detects the
wireless
network, I even configured it, entered WEP key, etc...
Now I'm not home, when I get there, I'll send you the "route" output...

Thanks.
 
* Paste the result of *route print* , here. If it doesnt involves the
routes

No wires involved...and the signal strength is 80%... windows detects the
wireless
network, I even configured it, entered WEP key, etc...
Now I'm not home, when I get there, I'll send you the "route" output...
Click to expand...

Here's route print output:

Destination Netmask Gateway Interface
Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.101 1
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
1
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.101 1
192.168.1.101 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.101 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.101 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.101 1

Default gateway: 192.168.1.1


From what I see, comparing this to the output of a working machine,
everything is
fine...
And here's the problem, I uninstalled the card, and installed an usb
controller,
and I get the same problem! So it seems is not a problem of the hardware
(unless
both cards are not supported, but that would be weird). So maybe is
something
in win2000 that is not set up correctly.
I'm just reinstalling win2000 and will carefully configure the conection, to
see if
I get over the problem.

Any tips are welcomed.
 
notme said:
And here's the problem, I uninstalled the card, and installed an usb
controller,
and I get the same problem! So it seems is not a problem of the hardware
(unless
both cards are not supported, but that would be weird). So maybe is
something
in win2000 that is not set up correctly.
I'm just reinstalling win2000 and will carefully configure the conection, to
see if
I get over the problem.

Any tips are welcomed.
Click to expand...

Hi,

no tip, but I can confirm. I have the same problem, W2k, network card
from Digitus, sends thousands of packets but receives none. I thought up
to know it could be a fault in the antenna cable, but your tests with a
second adaptor and Win XP make this very unlikely. Please post any
further information.

Rudi
 
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