Re: Wireless Connectivity Issues

On Mon, 05 May 2008 12:54:17 -0500, RnR <rnrtexas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 05 May 2008 12:13:28 -0500, Mark E. Bye <fxdyna@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have a Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop running XP and a Dell Wireless 1350
(802.11 b/g) card. I recently purchased a Linksys WRT54G wireless
router to replace my Linksys BEFSR41 router.

After about an hour online with Linksys tech support, I finally got
the thing to connect via wire.

Another good hour was spent with a second Linksys online tech support
person in our attempt to get it to connect wirelessly.
Unsuccessfully.

Any suggestions? I do have a transcript of what we did in that
session if anyone would be interested in taking a look at it and make
a suggestion.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

Mark


Having gone down this road myself with different routers several times
I can understand the frustration. Once I had the same router but I
returned it and went with a different option. That said, I can think
of several possibilities that are software related that can cause a
problem but it would help if someone has the same router in case it's
a router setup problem too.

I think the transcript would be helpful so we don't have to ask too
many questions like which OS are you using to begin with? Are you
using any firewall? Are you using the card's wireless utility or
windows builtin stuff (ie- Wireless Zero Confirguration)? Do you need
to use any mac address in the router's setup? Usually when first
setting up any wireless connection, it's best to use NO security
(firewalls, wep, etc...) initially to know you can make a wireless
connection, then you can begin to use the security features so that if
it drops the connection, you can pin point the problem right away.
You can also ping the router to see if that works. These are just
the first things I can think of but I'm sure Ben, Chris, Journey, Tom
and several others can also make some good suggestions to help you.
Hang in there and be patient. I'm pretty confident as a group, we can
get you connected wirelessly !!!

ps-- sometimes I've seen suggestions about using the same brand
router and card to make setup easier but I wouldn't spend more money
to do this but if this option is available to you, you might consider
it as a last resort. Personally I never needed to resort to this
method but I've had to chew my nails more than once <g>.


Oops.... Ok I see you already said XP for the OS (my bad).
BTW, if anyone suggests a new card, well all I can say is I have the
same wireless card (using XP too) and it works flawlessly for me in a
large 2 story home. I know some don't like this card.
.

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