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| 223718 | 2004-03-19 14:09:00 | Trying to setup a wireless network between my PC and laptop. After some hours managed to get the wireless cards to connect to each other using the XP wireless configuration instead of the program that came with the cards. I can not browse the network or get a shared internet connection even thought the cards are connected. My setup is XP on PC & Laptop. Both have cable network cards as well as the wireless cards. I have been able to browse the network at some point but it just disappeared for no reason. I have tried to bridge the connections manually, tried it not bridged and used the "setup network wizard" all with no success. I thought this was supposed to be easy. Any sites recommended for this or ideas. Internet connection sharing is enabled and the XP firewall and Zonealarm are also disabled. Have checked and double checked all the setting for the cards and everything is the same for both cards. WEP was disabled and when I enabled it I got some got some life out of the network for a very short time then got locked out again. Error message when looking for shared folders is no permission to access the files but all was working when connection was through the cable network cards. Also no ping response so it is not a permissions prob that I can see. Help needed. Cheers |
Berryb (654) | ||
| 223719 | 2004-03-19 21:55:00 | Another thought, should I disable the cable network cards in device manager so there is only one LAN communication device?? | Berryb (654) | ||
| 223720 | 2004-03-20 01:44:00 | I suspect that if you are setting the IP addresses the same in the two types of network the results would be "predictable" (bad). If you have 168.192.0.1 as the address of the Ethenet card in a machine, and then tell a wireless card that it too is 168.192.0.1 things might work briefly. Packets are directed on the basis of the MAC address of the distant interface card ... which is discovered by a broadcast if the IP address . The first card (Ether or wireless) will then "own" that IP address. When you boot up, the wired network will probably get in first and the MAC addresses wil be cached so the wireless one won't be seen. (It will have the wrong MAC address). You could try using the 10.0 range for the wired network and 168.192 for the wireless one. I'd be inclined to disable the wired one first, and get the wireless on going properly first. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 223721 | 2004-03-20 03:18:00 | sorry... off the subject... Isn't the IP range for manully configured private IP's 192.168.X.X ??? Falcon |
00falcon (3801) | ||
| 223722 | 2004-03-20 12:52:00 | Found the problem. I had UPnP disabled due to port 5000 being open. This wasn't a problem with the wired network but obviously a major with wireless. Once UPnP was enabled with a reboot my wireless network is now finally working. What a bloody hassle this upgrade has been over such a small click of the mouse. | Berryb (654) | ||
| 223723 | 2004-05-05 21:04:00 | Hi Berryb I've got exactly the same wireless networking problems as you describe and want to try your solution - but what is UPnP, and how do I enable it? Cheers Tim K |
tkelly (709) | ||
| 223724 | 2004-05-05 21:27:00 | UPnP is Universal Plug and Play (or Pray) and is a Windows XP Service. To enable or disable it go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services, scroll down to Universal Plug and Play, right click, choose Properties and change the Startup Type to Automatic. Alternatively you could download a utility that enables and disables it from this site. (grc.com) |
tommy (2826) | ||
| 223725 | 2004-05-06 02:49:00 | Hi Tommy Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately it didn't work. I'm trying to link a desktop & laptop PC via an ad-hoc wireless network. The network appears to be up and running, but I can't access the desktop files from the laptop (it sometimes works the other way around). Both machines are using XP Home. I've tried; - letting IP addresses be set manually and automatically - changing file permissions on both machines. I'm sure this is something minor, but can't find what it is - any ideas ...? Cheers Tim K |
tkelly (709) | ||
| 223726 | 2004-05-06 03:07:00 | XP firewalls off? Third party firewalls temporily disabled? | Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 223727 | 2004-05-06 03:30:00 | Hi Yep - all firewalls & Norton AV disabled! Cheers Tim K |
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