by justpassingthrough » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:44 pm
If you are trying to get to the net and network the computers too, use the XP home network setup wizard on the main machine and as it asks questions, tell it to use OTHER and then select that you connect to the internet through a router. Once that wizard runs it will ask you to make a floppy, have it do so. Then take the floppy and put it in the other machine and run the the exe on the floppy. You have to reboot the machines after it runs.
If that does not get it connected I would suspect a wireless hardware problem. Possibly a conflict between the Windows wireless configuration utility and the one the wireless card may have installed. Had that happen on my new motherboard. I had to disable the one that came with the card and enable the Windows wireless configuration tool, then let it find the router and sign in.
If it dont find the router in the windows wireless configuration utility then I think it would be a transmission or recieve problem. Make sure the router is set up to use DNS automatically or it wont assign an IP to the wireless connection it connects to and you have to do that manually if not in auto DNS mode. I think its DNS, I get confused sometimes with all the different network abrivs. I think the router also has to be set to the same transmission protocol as the card too, aty least thats how it worked here when I played with it.
I learned alot about all this wireless junk in the last month
