Hyde
06-14-2006, 02:50 AM
Hey folks. Sorry to burden you with another boring problem, but I'm not up on my networking knowledge and I'm in real need of some help.
I recently upgraded my BT connection and got with it the BT Voyager 2091 wireless router. I have two laptops: one with an integrated wireless device running windows XP, and another running windows 2000, for which I bought the Netgear WG511v2 wireless adapter.
The XP computer works an absolute dream, but the 2000 has me tearing my hair out.
Both the router and the adapter manager show excellent signal strength, and are most definately associated and connected with the correct WEP information entered. However, I cannot ping the router from the laptop, and have no internet access. Ipconfig shows that I get no DHCP response, and end up with an autoconfigured IP which is useless. Every setting on the router I can see is set to what it should be, including amount of DHCP clients enabled.
Here's the kicker - when I connect the router via USB, I get an IP, subnet, gateway and DNS instantly resulting in perfect performance. There must be something amiss with my laptop setup, even though I have tinkered with every combination of settings in my adapter manager and tried numerous static IPs.
BT were less than helpful. They merely repeated every step layed out in the setup guide, like customer service tends to do.
Please help!
Thanks.
I recently upgraded my BT connection and got with it the BT Voyager 2091 wireless router. I have two laptops: one with an integrated wireless device running windows XP, and another running windows 2000, for which I bought the Netgear WG511v2 wireless adapter.
The XP computer works an absolute dream, but the 2000 has me tearing my hair out.
Both the router and the adapter manager show excellent signal strength, and are most definately associated and connected with the correct WEP information entered. However, I cannot ping the router from the laptop, and have no internet access. Ipconfig shows that I get no DHCP response, and end up with an autoconfigured IP which is useless. Every setting on the router I can see is set to what it should be, including amount of DHCP clients enabled.
Here's the kicker - when I connect the router via USB, I get an IP, subnet, gateway and DNS instantly resulting in perfect performance. There must be something amiss with my laptop setup, even though I have tinkered with every combination of settings in my adapter manager and tried numerous static IPs.
BT were less than helpful. They merely repeated every step layed out in the setup guide, like customer service tends to do.
Please help!
Thanks.