Wireless Network Problems with Laptop USB wireless card

[Guest]

I recently got a Sager notebook computer with a pentium 4, 60 gig 7200rpm hdd, 512 megs DDR. Last night, I installed Windows XP Professional. To enable my built in wireless adaptor, I installed USB drivers, then the adaptor's drivers and helper application. The device is recognized in device manager and I am able to connect to my wireless D-Link router. The network connections icon says connected at 11 mbps. I set my TCP/IP setting correctly but I can't seem to connect to any websites or anything. I can't even connect to my router's html interface at the gateway IP. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything, and I've double checked all the wireless network settings and tried them every possible way. Also, the same TCP/IP settings worked perfectly when I made a wired connection. Any ideas what is happening?

 

[Gary Tsang]

Hi,

Are you able to ping any of your computers, or the wireless router's IP
address?
Are you obtaining an IP address through the D-Link router's DHCP server or
are you manually assigning a static IP address?

If none of those suggestions work, do you have any security settings enabled
on your D-Link wireless router?
Do you have MAC filtering enabled on the D-Link router? If you have it
enabled, and if your wireless adapter's MAC address isn't in the list, then
you won't be able to associate your wireless network card to the D-Link
wireless router.


--
Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp

I recently got a Sager notebook computer with a pentium 4, 60 gig 7200rpm

hdd, 512 megs DDR. Last night, I installed Windows XP Professional. To
enable my built in wireless adaptor, I installed USB drivers, then the
adaptor's drivers and helper application. The device is recognized in device
manager and I am able to connect to my wireless D-Link router. The network
connections icon says connected at 11 mbps. I set my TCP/IP setting
correctly but I can't seem to connect to any websites or anything. I can't
even connect to my router's html interface at the gateway IP. I've tried
uninstalling and reinstalling everything, and I've double checked all the
wireless network settings and tried them every possible way. Also, the same
TCP/IP settings worked perfectly when I made a wired connection. Any ideas
what is happening?