Re: wep problems

I have it working!

You were right, Jeff, about the router being signifigant.

The problem spread to my other laptop, also a dell, so I imagine it was
precipitated by a windows update, though I can't be sure. If this is
the case, there seems to have been a delay of a few days (a couple
reboots? a few cycles of signing on or off? a cached setting somewhere
expiring?) between the windows update and the problem starting. If
there is a similar delay after reversing the cause of the problem, that
would explain why system restore didn't seem to have helped.

I was able to connect, with WEP, to the router from either laptop when
running mepis linux from a livecd, but from neither when running
windows, so the software on the laptop was a factor.

But, just to try it, I updated the firmware on the router. Problem
solved. Looking through the bugfixes listed with the update, I saw one
for compatablity problems with centrino systems. Neither of our
laptops are centrino, but there must have been a compatablitly problem
exposed by the update to the laptop software, and fixed by the update.


Here are the details:

Dell Inpiron 5160
XP2
Windows Zero Config
Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card

Dell Inspiron 5100
XP2
Windows Zero Config
Dell TrueMobil 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card

NETGEAR MR814v2
Firmware Version 5.3_05
Firmware updated from 5.03

Thanks for all your help,
hunwalla

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