Do you have the correct SSID setting?  Sounds like that's the only setting you didn't try.

Both the router and wireless login are using the same SSID.  If they were different, I don't think it would say connected, would it?  Is it possible to connect WITHOUT matching SSID's?

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You could receive the signal but not authenticate to the router without matching SSID's.  Must be something else.

Do you have some sort of Norton or McAffee firewalls running?  It also sounds like an imcompatibility of the TrueMobile card and the D-Link router.  Make sure both have the latest updates.

Message Edited by jmwills on 02-23-2004 07:15 AM

I've tried with the Norton firewall running and without.  The MS one is off as a matter of course anyway. I've disabled any antivirus for testing as a well.  Both the router and the Trumobile card have the latest software on them.  I had the same results trying to get a Linksys wireless router running as well.  I find it hard to believe that the TruMobile card is incompatible with both these brands and only works with Airport.  I think it's a setting somewhere either in Windows XP or for the TruMobile card that I'm forgetting.

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I ended up setting my old Airport to the settings here, and it works fine.  Long live Airport, screw D-Link!

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I have the exact same problem, with my new 600m (Dell TrueMobile 1300) wireless on winxp. I'm definately connected to the network with the correct ssid and key, but the laptop is not recieving any packets. The odd thing is that repairing the connection happens very quickly, and I revieve the correct settings and information (ip, gateway ip, dns servers) from my router, which is a linksys BEFW11S4 v.2. If this is an incompatability issue, is there any other way to fix it? I don't have another router to use. Do you know if there is some feature on your Airport that is missing from the linksys router?

 

Update: After browsing the forums some more, I found the solution of dropping the transfer rate on the router. This has worked, but it results in, well, slow transfer rate for all my wireless computers. Any way around this?  Is it because the TrueMobile card can't handle even 11mbps?

Message Edited by gsx00 on 02-28-2004 08:22 PM

Thanks for trying, I'll stick with my Airport then;)

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Somebody posted in another thread to change the 'preamble' from short to long.  It's in the Advanced settings somewhere for the router.  Try that, if it works, post it, since others might be reading.  Plus it would give me a reason to box up the airport and try out the D-Link again.

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Already set on long, it was the default. Dropping the TxRate definately works, but I wish there was a better way. 11mbps was already fairly slow for large file transfers, 2 is almost unbearable.

After over a month of trying to get my new laptop (XP, Latitude D500, Trumobile 1400, Linksys router) working (every night on the phone with support, new OS, new drivers, new machine, new card...), dropping the transfer rate on the router miraculously did the trick. 

While this work around is tolerable at home, I cannot adjust the routers at the places I work.  Anyone know of a workaround for that?

Anyone else see this problem?  Looks like a Dell bug that could/should be fixed.  thanks

Rather simple solution actually. Instead of dropping the TX rate on your router, drop it on your wireless card. This can be done in Network Connections -> Properties. Then in the general tab, hit the configure button at the top for your adapter. In the following properties window, go to the advanced tab and look for a TxRate property, or something like it, and set it down to 2.