You may not be doing anything wrong. I have the truemobile 1180 in my Inspiron 8200. It connects at work fine, but often will not at home (same wireless unit at both places). When it doesn't connect, I see that the address of the DHCP server is incorrect. (It should broadcast to the DHCP server when the site changes, but it sometimes maintains the address of the previous site). Can correct by disabling/re-enabling the connection.
Are you sure there is no WEP on the linksys router?
With these routers it will do exactly what you have said, appear to connect, send data, and give you an internal ip of 169.254...
I have seen this a few times and it has always been that the client computer (yours) does not have the WEP key.
On XP right click in the taskbar on your wireless local area network connection, click view all available connections, if you click on the Linksys Wifi does it give you a space below to enter a WEP key? if so get the key and put it there.
Thanks for the reply... The WEP key encryption is enabled with Shared key. Currently, there's an imac connected via airport extreme (802.11g) wireless card; a PC via ethernet; and hopefully my laptop. The linksys is set to broadcast both 802.11b and 802.11g signals. WEP key is set to 64bits. Imac has no problem connecting to the linksys....just me :-(
The culprit is definitely the linksys WRT54g as I can connect and get correct internal address for wireless connection with a Dlink 614+ (64bit encryption) and a Linksys BEFW11S4 (128 bit encryption). All encrypted WEP keys are stored in the intel ProSet profiles as either 10/26 Hex; and also within WinXP wireless connection with Windows to configure my wireless connection zeroed out (unchecked). That's why I'm confused as to the cause of this errant 169.254....internal address is coming from. Distance cannot be the culprit as the inspiron is right next to the darn thing (wrt54g). Actually, the imac is on another floor and it associated the correct internal address 192.168....to the imac MAC. Just won't do it for the inspiron MAC. Where else may I look for incorrect setting? Totally new to WinXP; that may be the cause to some of this confusion.
Sorry for the long windedness....you guys have been most helpful.
I am having the same exact problem. I can have my Inspiron 8600 sitting next to the WRT54G and it will intermittently connect to it. I have WEP set up and it connects fine sometimes.... other times I have to restart my laptop a few times and/or the router to get them to connect. I am starting to think one is faulty.
Jerry Park
695 Posts
0
September 22nd, 2003 14:00
Pete03
3 Posts
0
September 22nd, 2003 14:00
Are you sure there is no WEP on the linksys router?
With these routers it will do exactly what you have said, appear to connect, send data, and give you an internal ip of 169.254...
I have seen this a few times and it has always been that the client computer (yours) does not have the WEP key.
On XP right click in the taskbar on your wireless local area network connection, click view all available connections, if you click on the Linksys Wifi does it give you a space below to enter a WEP key? if so get the key and put it there.
cpm-buzzy
8 Posts
0
September 23rd, 2003 00:00
Thanks for the reply... The WEP key encryption is enabled with Shared key. Currently, there's an imac connected via airport extreme (802.11g) wireless card; a PC via ethernet; and hopefully my laptop. The linksys is set to broadcast both 802.11b and 802.11g signals. WEP key is set to 64bits. Imac has no problem connecting to the linksys....just me :-(
The culprit is definitely the linksys WRT54g as I can connect and get correct internal address for wireless connection with a Dlink 614+ (64bit encryption) and a Linksys BEFW11S4 (128 bit encryption). All encrypted WEP keys are stored in the intel ProSet profiles as either 10/26 Hex; and also within WinXP wireless connection with Windows to configure my wireless connection zeroed out (unchecked). That's why I'm confused as to the cause of this errant 169.254....internal address is coming from. Distance cannot be the culprit as the inspiron is right next to the darn thing (wrt54g). Actually, the imac is on another floor and it associated the correct internal address 192.168....to the imac MAC. Just won't do it for the inspiron MAC. Where else may I look for incorrect setting? Totally new to WinXP; that may be the cause to some of this confusion.
Sorry for the long windedness....you guys have been most helpful.
suprball
1 Message
0
March 14th, 2004 23:00
cpm-buzzy
8 Posts
0
March 15th, 2004 12:00
lcred43
1 Message
0
February 14th, 2005 14:00