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frustrating wifi problem

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bleed3r

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I'm having a difficult time trying to setup my sister's computer on my home network.

We have a Dlink 624 wireless router.
I have a windows 98 laptop connecting with with a 802.11g card perfectly.

This one computer is frustrating the crap out of me though.
She has windows xp, sp2 installed. There was just a 802.11b card in there before, but everything I tried didn't work so I threw in a brand new msi 802.11g card which I can't get to work now either...

I would setup the ssid and wep key etc, but not be able to get the connection!
I would see full green bars when trying to connect with windows, but would just hang upon "Waiting for network". I don't have ANY filters for mac addys or anything, just open WEP.

I would try connecting with the msi program too, but trying to connect to the ssid listed just closed the window with nothing changing.

So I removed SP2 thinking maybe its screwing things up (what a bit of googling prompted me to do) and still no go. This is really bugging the hell out of me. How come windows 98 was so easy to setup? ssid, wep, bam connected all green. This is all wack...


I would just assume fix up her computer with a fresh install, likely windows 2000, but thats the worst path with all the b*tching I'll get.

I'm really stuck on what I can do. I'm flabbergasted as to why I can type in the right info on another computer and it works but on XP it's so damn finicky. Please tell me a noob mistake I missed!! There must be something....
 
just a thought...try it with no wep?

cant think of anything else offhand. i had a few wireless cards that didnt like wep for wahtever reason, itd do the exact same thing you said. turned off wep and no problems from there on out
 
yes, I'll have to try that

then I guess I'll use mac filtering if wep is the problem
 
tried with no wep, still same problem

this is a brand new card, it should work fine with wep anyways

any other ideas?
 
got me there. i dont know then. have u tried settings the ip's statically if u say u get good signal and all. try to set them static and see if it gets a connection like that
 
Yeah, I tried setting a static IP already. Figured it wouldn't do anything though. Doesn't change the fact that it still doesnt take the connection.

Yharr, still stuck here.
 
had a nic do that before, and it was bad.... dunno... two dead nics in a row??

QJ
 
well I know the first one worked before on a linksys router. Just doesnt work now!
Maybe its this dlink router that's a piece of crap? Although the wifi IS working for sure, there's teh win98 laptop on 802.11g

Maybe if I have time ill pull everything apart and try the new nic on my personal box to see if it still has problems.
 
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