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re: Wirless networking...w/linksys products and XP
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 10:35 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jay
(1 messages posted)
WinXP and Linksys seem to hate each other. I can hold a connection for about 3 seconds.
Then it dies and I get a device failure when I run ipconfig. How stupid is that.
I've tried just about everything. Linksys stuff works completly fine on Win2000
and Win98. Not XP though. My advice to other XP users, do what I did: buy a couple
long Ethernet cords and link them together. good luck.
On Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 5:52 pm, Amy Segowski wrote:
>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:
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>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.
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>I set up the hub to default gateway to the wireless router. The wireless router
default
>gateways out to the public Internet.
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>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.
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