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March 14, 2006 at 10:29 PM
skatinghero

wireless networking problem

by skatinghero . Updated 20 years, 1 month ago

i have a problem i was hoping that someone could help me with im running a pc with win xp with SP2 i have just purchased a linksys WPA54G v3 Access point i have the modem connected to the pc via USB and the access point attached to the pc via ethernet, i have a toshiba laptop with centrino the wireless is turned on via the switch on the side of the laptop the problem i am having is that i can ping the PC from the laptop threw the AP i can also see the pc in network neighbourhood from the laptop and vice versa but i cannot get the internet on the laptop. on the laptop i have a application called connectivity Doctor it is a toshiba app but it says that the default gateway and the dns server address is incorrect.i am unable to logonto the AP to change anything and i have run the setup wizard but it fails to see the AP. i have givin the local area network an ip address of 192.168.0.170 and subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 i have set the default gateway to the AP ip address of 192.168.1.245 and the dns to the modem address of 10.0.0.1, i have done this to both the PC on the LAN connection and the WAN connection on the laptop the LAN on the laptop is disabled. i have also set up a SOHO network on both pc and laptop and set the workgroup to just mshome. i appologise for my stupidity but i am at a loss, if i have forgotten anything please let me know i am at your mercy. thankyou for your help.

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