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Getting WindozeXP Home to Use 802.11b Wireless Connection
I am getting a bit frustrated with WindowsXP at this point. I
purchased and installed a belkin 802.11b router and a PCI 802.11b wireless in my duaghters computer (she will be taking this back to school and sharing a connection with two other girls in a townhouse where the access point/router will be in another room with the other two girls PC's plugged into the ethernet switch ports and one of the PC's will be running connection sharing on a dial-up computer). After installing the PCI card and the driver, her PC see's the wireless connection. For the test set-up at home here (I am going to use the same set-up for her at school) the PC's have the following fixed addesses. 192.168.0.1 Gateway PC running connection sharing (attached to ethernet port on WAP/router) 192.168.0.2 My PC running Linux (only one with a decent OS) 192.168.0.6 Her PC with the Belkin PCI card 192.168.0.254 Belkin WAP/router The Belkin wireless utility states she is connected to the wireless network, but any time I try to ping or run a traceroute to .254, .2, ..3 or the internet it fails with "no route to host." I have tried everything (M$ connection wizards and different variations on the route command) to set the default route through Wireless card. Also when trying to use the route command I don't know the interface number (the help file states that as long as the wireless interface has the lowest metric it will get picked anyway) and I don't see anywhere in the docs on how to find it. Using "route PRINT" does not list the wireless card. Using IE or some other program brings up the interface to start the dial up connection. What do you recommend I try? |
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