Wireless problem

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Sirius

Hello Helpful Humans,

I was sent here from the Win2k General.

I recently purchased a refurb. wireless PCMCIA card for my notebook.
Netgear WN511b and Compaq Presario 1700 17XL265 Win2000 sp4.

I followed instructions, installed newest drivers, put the card in when
prompted. Got a strong signal and the status is
"Connected to router" It should however say "connected to internet". Because
of this webpages do not load. I uninstalled and reinstalled
several times.
It works with a wire. The manual that I also downloaded says in the
troubleshooting section is that this would be a network configuration
problem, but then how come it works with a wire. I took off the firewall,
same problem.
I googled it and the best thing that came so far is this 3rd party software
called
Network Magic. www.networkmagic.com/download When it's installed
everything works. It's only a 7 day
trial version, however
cost $60.00 to keep it. When I take it off the problem comes back. How did
Network Magic fix the problem, I can't figure out.

Using WEP security 64 bit.
Windows 2000 IP Configuration ipconfig/all:



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : notebook1
Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : RangeMax(tm) NEXT Wireless Notebook
Adapter WN511B
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-14-6C-D2-E8-82

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.91.15

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:



Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Cable Disconnected

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Compaq 10_100 MiniPCI Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-8B-AB-A1-20

===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x1000003 ...00 50 8b ab a1 20 ...... Compaq 10_100 MiniPCI Ethernet NIC
0x2000004 ...00 14 6c d2 e8 82 ...... RangeMax(tm) NEXT Wireless Notebook
Adapter WN511B
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
169.254.0.0 255.255.0.0 169.254.91.15 169.254.91.15 1
169.254.91.15 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
169.254.255.255 255.255.255.255 169.254.91.15 169.254.91.15 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 169.254.91.15 169.254.91.15 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 169.254.91.15 1000003 1
===========================================================================

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
 
Sirius said:
Hello Helpful Humans,

I was sent here from the Win2k General.

I recently purchased a refurb. wireless PCMCIA card for my notebook.
Netgear WN511b and Compaq Presario 1700 17XL265 Win2000 sp4.

I followed instructions, installed newest drivers, put the card in when
prompted. Got a strong signal and the status is
"Connected to router" It should however say "connected to internet".
Because
of this webpages do not load. I uninstalled and reinstalled
several times.
Click to expand...

No it connects to the router,...not the internet
The router connects to the Internet (and only it)
If you communiicate with the router, but cannot get to the internet then the
router itself is the issue.
Network Magic. www.networkmagic.com/download When it's installed
everything works. It's only a 7 day
Click to expand...

On the PC uninstall all the "stuff" that got installed with the Nic.
Reinstall only the Nic driver,...see if there is a "custom" install option
where you can choose what gets installed. You need to manage the Nic with
the Windows Zero Configuration Utility,..it is already built into Windows,
use it instead of any utilities that get installed with the Nic driver.

I can not be more specific because I know nothing of your particular
band/model of Nic or router.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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