Wifi clients "the page cannot be displayed" but good on wired PCs


Greetings all,

A problem emerged on my Windows peer to peer network, (4 computers,
2 win2k, 1 xp and 1 win98) on the 2 wifi machines (win98 G and xp B
clients)
No domain, only a workgroup defined with one (wired) master browser
(all the other PC's browsers disabled in registry).

3COM Officeconnect 3CRWE554G72T 802.11G Router (Also Connected to a
Cable modem
internet with L2TP). DHCP enabled.

Can't browse the internet with IE on the wifi clients, responds with a
quick "dnserror" on the bottom and then a blank page with "page cannot
be displayed".
Outlook express still works though, and so does the router
configuration page.
on the wired machines all is well (both browsing and email).

I have the router configured as DHCP server. The L2TP connection to the
internet
is configured with 2 DNS servers. The ipconfig /all reports:

Ethernet adapter:
Media disconnected

Wireless adapter:

DHCP Enabled: yes
Ip address 192.168.x.x
subnet 255.255.255.0
def. gateway: 212.117.x.x
dns servers 212.117.x.x
dns servers 212.117.x.x

If I enter a static address in the Wifi notebook it seems to solve the
problem, but I think its only temprary until the next lease expires (I
have a temp. lease IP). In any case I'd like the notebook to be without
static IP so it can roam without a novice user having to change
configurations. The 3COM config advises that automatic settings (i.e.
not static) should work.


By the way I have WEP 128 bit encryption and router limits to home
network MAC addresses only.

Its not any spyware (I scanned) nor Norton NIS that I have since I have
it on the wired computers as well.

Thanks for any help..!

.

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