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by awarner

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I have a Linksys Wirless G router and I have a wireless B notebook card and a wirless G notebook card. We still have an old Netware 4.11 network (IPX). If I use the B card in my laptop, I can sign onto to Novell just like I'm wired. If I switch over to the G card, I cannot see the tree or anything. Linksys says they don't support Netware and will not help me. Is there something funky with IPX and wireless? Linksys says that IPX is not sent across the wireless connetion, but with the B card, it obviously is. What's the secret here???

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by pgm554

Linksys is correct in saying they do not "route" IPX.

However, when you attach to the Novell server the router is not routing anything IPX, it is working as a WAP which is completely consistent with what it can do.

What it can do is pass packets as a WAP between the wired Novell server and the routers WAP feature.
If you wanted to connect to a different site over a WAN link, then the routing feature of the Linksys would not pass the IPX packets, because the firmware doesn?t know how to do it.
The 54G card thing, I suspect, is a configuration issue either on the client side or at the file server side. Try binding IPX only on the card.

To be able to use the router to route IP to talk to the 4.11 server you need to do one of two things. Install NWIP and use an NWIP client from Novell or have at least one 5.x or
6. x box running SCMD.

If you want to use wireless IPX check out this article on setting up Mobile IPX on the Novell Appnote site. It should work for 4.11

developer.novell.com/research/appnotes/1996/march/01/index.htm

As usual, watch out for extra spaces

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