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Problem for the wireless Guru's

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AcidTone

Limp Gawd
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So this is my issue, I have a senao 2611cb3 deluxe multiclient bridge/Accesspoint, that I want to use in my house as an access point. So I set it all up and and try to connect with my laptop from work. The system connects to the SSID fine but will not transmit data. So I fiddle around for another hour or so with it and can not get it working. I gave up for the night and packed it away to take to work to play with on my lunch break. and here is what i have come up with.

My work laptop (latitude 620) has a Intel 3945ABG card in it and will not transmit data but will connect.

Another laptop at work (inspiron 600m) has a dell wireless 1450 card in it connects fine and i am able to see all my server ect.

any one have any suggestions?
 
update the intel drivers, there should be 'driver only' package from intel's download site.
 
if you are already setup and running encryption on the access point (WEP or WPA), turn it off. then see if the problem machine (and the additional one) can connect. If it can, turn on your preferred encryption type. Then attempt to connect.
 
I have done both of the suggestions with no luck. Right now the Access point is running open with no encryption on it, and I have the latest drives from intel. Those were the first things i checke last night while fiddling with this.
 
I have tried both standard and non standard. right now it is set up on channel 6
 
Dhcp, and yes it will assign a address to the laptop but that is it. The laptop gets all DNS settings everything looks right but it just will not transmit data. when i look at the status of the network connection it is sending packets but not recieving them......
 
First, if you get an IP, then the connection is fine. Packets have to be transfered in order for you to receive an IP.

Do you have more than one interface on this laptop? Try disabling all but the wireless. Have you manually entered any routes? It sounds like some sort of routing problem, either on the laptop, or on the network. If this is a simple home network, I would imagine that it is an issue on the laptop.

Do you have admin rights on the laptop? Are they running any security software on the machine? Are you an IT guy at the company you work for?
 
Ya i figured the connection is fine. There is an on board nic which i have disabled on the laptop. no manual routes have been entered.

If it were a routing problem wouldnt the other laptop have issues also? This is really confusing me as to why it will not work every thing is right but it just refuses to work. This is true with 2 of the same model laptops, for some reason the ones with the 3945 card will not work right with the Senao AP.

I have full control of the laptop no security software and I am the IT person.
 
If you are running XP, check the firewall if you haven't already.
 
I don't think this could be it since you get an ip address, but is mac address filtering turned on?
 
Are you able to swap wireless cards? Also is there any possibility that it is getting the same IP as another machine on the AP(if there are any)?
 
wireless is intergrated, Currently I am the only one at work and there are no other systems trying to access the AP.
 
Integrated as in uses a mini pci card? If it does you could switch it out with another laptop and see if the problem follows the card or stays with the laptop.
 
Once connected can you open up a Command prompt and do a "route print" and post the results here?

a copy of "ipconfig /all" wouldent hurt either.
 
Code: 
C:\>route print
===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...XX XX XX XX XX XX ...... Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
 - Packet Scheduler Miniport
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0        10.40.1.1    10.40.41.169       30
        10.40.0.0      255.255.0.0     10.40.41.169    10.40.41.169       30
     10.40.41.169  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       30
   10.255.255.255  255.255.255.255     10.40.41.169    10.40.41.169       30
        127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       1
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0     10.40.41.169    10.40.41.169       30
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255     10.40.41.169    10.40.41.169       1
Default Gateway:         10.40.1.1
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
  None

C:\>


Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : jklocke
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : Removed

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 6:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : Removed
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : XX XX XX XX XX XX
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.40.41.169
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.40.1.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.40.1.20
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.3.1.5
                                            10.1.1.5
                                            XXX.XXX.64.130
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:19:22 PM
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:19:22 PM

C:\>
 
On a breif glance that all looks good.. can you ping your gateway ?

CORRECTION.. Why is your mask 255.255.0.0 ? Is your router routing all 65000+ addresses in that space?
 
This is my work network, I am in assaigned 10.40.0.0-10.40.255.255 so we are on the net mask 255.255.0.0
 
can you manually set a static IP and just for grins use 255.255.255.0
Can you ping 127.0.0.1?
Can you ping your gateway (already asked)
Can you ping 4.2.2.2?
Are any other protocols installed on the laptop? (ipx for example)
Try running LSPFix to see if your network stack got corrupted by spyware.
 
I got tired of fooling with the AP last night and went and got a WRT54g, pulgged it in and it works fine. Not sure why the Senao would not work, but im not going to waste any more time on it.
 
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