Netgear Wireless network problems

Does the router's SSID show up when you go to "View Available Wireless Networks"?  Are the security features of the router (Hide SSID, MAC Address Filtering, and WEP or WPA Encryption) temporarily disabled until you can get the connection to work?  Does the router work with other systems either through wireless or wired connections?

Steve

The router does show up when I click on avialable wireless networks. I haven't tried disabling the security features of the router, but it's setup as an open network. There are other systems connected to it currently. Here's the setup:

Mac OSX - wireless through airport card
Windows 95 box - wireless D-Link card
2 Windows 95 boxes - wired PCI NICs

The laptop is the only system running XP.

Well, when we select the network, it brings up a box that says it is connecting to it, but nothing happens. The box stays up for a long period of time (more than 30 minutes) . So in essence, the laptop shows the network, but we just can't connect to it. We've already configured the ad-hoc channel, and it works for the other computers...

Exactly what happens when you select the wireless network in the View Available Wireless Networks box then click on "Connect"?  You really have to help me out here, because I cannot see what you are doing.

Steve

I don't understand what you mean when you say "We've already configured the ad-hoc channel".  Ad-hoc mode is usually only used when connecting one wireless network card to another without an intervening router or access point.  If you network card is running in Ad-hoc mode, it won't work with the router.

Try downloading and running winsockfix for Windows XP from the Here and if that doesn't work try lspfix from Here.

Steve

Cool! Thanks for your help. I'll see if that works or not.

I had the problem of my computers being seen by the router, but still not connecting. I think it’s a router setting and not a Dell problem. Seems like someone would have discovered this and posted it before me.

This worked for me -

Besides the WEP security, there is another “permission” setting for the Netgear MR814v2.

• Turn on the computer that you are trying to get connected
• With your main “server” computer (the one that controls the router) Go to the Netgear router manager (http://192.168.0.1/). User name: admin  PW: password
• On the left, under Setup, click on Wireless Settings
• Look for Wireless Card Access List, click on Setup Access list button
• Click the Add button. The router manager looks for computers and adds the MAC Address.
• Type in a description for the computer. Click Apply.

See if that works. If not, shut down the computer, the router and the DSL modem (in that order) and then fire them back up again in reverse order (Modem, then router, then computer). You should now be connected.

With my new computer, I had to then set up at least one connection in Internet Explorer (Tools, Internet Options, Connections). Once I had that set up, I still had problems actually getting an Internet connection. I rebooted everything one more time (see above) and now all is good!

Let me know if this works!

Message Edited by TerryG12 on 02-24-2005 10:58 AM