Posted on 07/15/2005 10:14:34 PM PDT by Lexinom
Have there been any nuclear detonations near your home recently?
Not above ground :-)
This approach invariably works for me.
Which Linksys is it?
It is a "WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router", brand new.
Can you ping the router from one of the laptops?
3RD POSSIBILITY.
Interference. Neighbor bought a wireless router or phone and is interrupting your signal.
Use Netstumbler on your laptops. It will show if a neighbor is interfering.
It wont show a 2.4 phone though.
BTW the wireless mode on the router is set to "b" (not "g"). This is the older mode, and does allow connection to the wireless network as reported by client.
Good suggestion though.
Netstumbler? I will give that a shot. Thanks.
Stuff breaks down.... DLINK is better than LINKSYS.
Did you change the IP address of the router? IOW, double-check that you're pinging the right addy ;)
Early this week the two laptops were stacked one on top of the other. I was using the top one. The harddrive hiccupped, and I thought it was gone (it probably does need to be replaced). It made a funny clicking noise and then stopped. Everything froze, incl. the mouse cursor. I did a hard power-cycle. After the "HP" screen (built into the BIOS), the screen displayed "Operating system not found."
My theory: If the hard drive, spinning at 5400 RPM, were to suddenly stop for some reason (as sounded like happened), the magnetic pulse from the motor would send a sudden shockwave of induced current into the wiring of the WIFI cards, located immediately below the hard-drives. Since the machines were stacked, it would have penetrated outward to the lower machine as well, apparently with enough strength to cause damage to the transmission circuitry. A "mini-EMP".
Incidently, though I assumed that HD was toast, I am using that very machine at this moment to type this message with the same HD.
Yeah, it's 192.168.1.1. That's the address I had used earlier to configure it. I really do think the WIFI cards are toast - no evidence of transmission of any sort, only picking up the SSID broadcast from the network called "linksys".
Thanks alot. I laughed and woke up the wife. =)
Bought mine from the IP. Under warranty as long as I have service with them.
Far more likely, you're experiencing a network config issue with your laptops.
I would suggest that you erase your current network settings on one laptop, and reconfigure the laptop's network settings. You can probably start by directly connecting the laptop via ethernet to make sure the router is routing traffic via the ethernet.
After that, attempt to set up the wireless again.
Did you manually enter the DNS servers addresses on the laptops? Try a static IP like http://209.157.64.200/
The simplest way to test the cards might be to either set up an ad-hoc peer-to-peer connection between them, and se if they can talk to each other, or take them to the local internet cafe/Starbucks/whatever, and spring for a few minutes of connectivity to test them. Or just "borrow" a neighbor's connection for a few minutes ;)
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