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Wireless Confusion

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Mortankas

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Hey all, i'm having a bit of a problem.

I have a wireless network set up at home, consisting of 1 wireless router, 3 Desktop PC's & 1 Laptop with a PCMCIA wireless card. My problem is, the 3 desktop PC's connect to the router fine, and proceed to load up web pages no problem.

The laptop will also connect to the router with a good signal to boot, but won't load up any pages in the browser. I have the browser set upto automatically detect settings, i've tried disabling windows firewall, assigning it's IP address both automatically and manually, the lot. The network settings of the laptop are identical to the desktop PC's, i don't understand why it won't access any web pages.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
Can you ping the router from the wireless laptop? Are you using encryption such as WEP or WPA?
 
I cannot ping the router from the laptop, or any other machines on the network. The desktop machines all ping fine.

I'm using WEP 64-bit Encryption, and also MAC address authentication.

Another strange thing that has started happening, even tho the laptop is right next to my router, it now won't connect to it, but when i remove the PCMCIA card and place it back in, suddenly it will connect immediately. :confused:

To clear up a few other things:

The router does have DHCP enabled
SSID Broadcast Is Enabled
MAC Authentication has now been disabled, but to no avail
Disabling WEP had no effect
No firewalls / pop-up blockers are in effect
The laptop is assigned a valid IP address of 192.168.0.3 - but will not ping anything, not even the gateway address of the router

After browsing around 8 other forums of users having the same problem i believe it's a sheer compatibility issue. The router just must not like the brand of the PCMCIA card.
 
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