wireless not geting no ip

[Elspuddy]

o.k i'v been haveing a go at this for 2-3 hours now and it's driveing me nuts
i deside to plug my wireless network card back into me laptop so i can watch a movie over my network on the widescreen tv downstaires.when i get downstaire and plug in my wireless card in i got no signel from my ap (bar soime one else unscured ap) after about 1 hour of switching chnnels on the ap and seting the dhcp to alow more ips i just said duck it and throiwed a nic wire out the window watched my movie, then went back up staire to figure out why i was geting no signel from my ap (netgear wg602),
now the ap get's an ip from my 604 but dose not let my laptop get an ip and say it can not find the dhcp server, i'v cheacked all the connections pushed all the plugs back in and rebooted the ap and the 604 also put the signle back on channell 11, i have been haveing some trubble geting windows to accpect the passfrace for my WAP, but i can;t see whats stoping my lappy for geting a ip
any idears
??

[Afty]

Originally posted by Elspuddy
Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged Looks like it's working to me.

[Elspuddy]

update
i think my ap is fuged, hoiw did i figure this out, easy, i put my old dlink dwl-650+ cand in, i got a connection to the ap, but no ip, i'v tryed giveing the wifi card an ip but nothing get resovled

[Jazza]

Sounds like the joy of Windows XP Wireless Zero Config.

Setup the card, using the software supplied, and disable wireless zero config. that should do the trick

More info about the problem [wired.com]
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63705,00.html

Fix [arstechica.com]
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040606-3848.html

[Elspuddy]

tryed that still can;t find the dhcp server, it's got a connection to the ap but keeps saying : Windows IP Configuration

An error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection : unable
to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.

[Mu5icMan]

easy answer. Don't use DHCP

[Elspuddy]

then nothing resolves no net/lan

[Mu5icMan]

i use static ip addresses for my wireless. Is the wireless thingy an Access Point or Router

[Jazza]

is your SSID hidden??

[Elspuddy]

nope

Information

Access Point Information
Access Point Name netgear7421e6
MAC Address 00:09:5B:74:21:E6
Country / Region Europe
Firmware Version 1.7.15

Current IP Settings
IP Address 192.168.10.16
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.10.1
DHCP Client Enable

Current Wireless Settings
Operating Mode Auto
Wireless Network Name (SSID) Elspuddy
Broadcast Wireless Network Name (SSID) Enable
Channel / Frequency 11 / 2.462GHz
WEP Enable

[Bonkers]

wrong wep key?

[Mu5icMan]

i've just moved downstairs on my laptop and i get 2 wireless networks come up. I am able to connect if i go into the wireless network config and add a prefered network, type in neccessary information and change the network authentication to shared and not open it worked for me.

[Elspuddy]

Originally posted by Bonkers
wrong wep key?

nope, i dont get connected to the ap if i had the wrong one

[Nivek]

have you reset the ap? i often find dhcp problems on my wireless is resolved by turning the ap off and on

[Elspuddy]

yep, but then again it went back to giveing out no ip
bw sussed, thanks squeeb, i own you a cupple of drinks
yes it was someing to do with wep

[Bonkers]

;) was on the right track