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re: Wirless networking...w/linksys products and XP
Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 5:52 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Amy Segowski
(2 messages posted)
I finally resolved my Linksys/XP problems with workarounds. I'm not sure, by your
email, if you are connecting to the hub via wireless card or USB connection, so I'll
explain what works for my network:
The wireless card finally installed correctly in an XP machine. I configured it for
"ad-hoc" rather than "infrastructure" and put it on the same network as the hub,
which became the wireless NIC's default gateway.
The only way I could get the wireless card to connect with the wireless hub was to
configure the hub in this way:
I connected the hub to the XP machine via cat 5 ethernet and enterred the setup mode.
To do this, I had to give my XP machine a 192.168.1.x address. (docmentation will
tell you what the XP defaults to for its address)
I configured the hub for "ad-hoc" rather than "infrastructure" mode. I gave the hub
an IP address on the same network as the XP machine (I changed mine from the default),
and set up the XP machine's wired and wireless NIC to default gateway to the wireless
hub's address.
I set up the hub to default gateway to the wireless router. The wireless router default
gateways out to the public Internet.
Then I disconnected the wireless hub from the PC and put it downstairs, where it
is wired into a Linksys 4 port wireless router. I had to disable 802.11b in the wireless
router to avoid timeouts upstairs.
On Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at 4:02 pm, Matthew wrote:
>I have a question about Getting
>Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to work with PPPoE:
>
>Does anyone else use a linksys wireless usb hub and cant get it to work w/win XP?
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