I am visiting some relatives for Thanksgiving, and they asked me to take a look at their home network issues. They have an SBC DSL line with a 2Wire Gateway (mode 2701hg-b). One Windows XP computer is connected directly to this router and connects to the internet fine.
Their 2nd Windows XP PC has a Linksys Wireless-G USB network adapter (Wusb54gs v2.1) and cannot connect to the internet.
We can see the wireless network from the 2nd PC, and it connects succesfully, but never gets an IP address, and the following message appears:
“You are connected to the access point, but the internet cannot be found.”
I cannot ping the router or the other PC from this second PC, and its IP address appears as either 0.0.0.0 or 172.169.something.something with no default gateway.
My Iphone can connect to the wireless network without any problem, so I think the problem is on the 2nd PC side. Here’s the steps I’ve tried:
– uninstall Linksys software, unplug usb wireless adapter, reinstall Linksys software, plug in usb adapter
– disable all security on wireless router
– change channel on wireless router (default was channel 1, tried 3,4,5,6)
– reset wireless router/modem to default settings, confirmed that wired PC and Iphone could connect
– turned off/on all hardware (router, modem, PC)
– change the workgroup names to match between both computers
and other suggestions?