Win98SE computer can't "see" rest of LAN or internet

I have an old machine running Windows 98SE. All the other machines run
Windows XP Home or MacOS X Tiger and can all see the internet and each
other. Internet connection and LAN connection is through a Linksys ADSL
wireless gateway.
I put a D-Link DWL-G510 wireless card in the the Win98SE machine.
The D-Link configuration/monitoring utility says it is connected to my
access point. WPA PSK encryption is configured correctly for the
wireless card on the Win98SE machine.
I can't ping the gateway or any other computer on the LAN.
The IP address shown in the winipcfg table for the wireless card does
not conform to the rest of my network. It should be like 192.168.1.90 or
something, but is instead a comepletely different IP number.
TCP/IP properties for the wireless card is set to obtain IP
automatically and to use DHCP, but this does not appear to be working
since it is not getting the right IP address.
I've tried running the Internet connection wizard, choosing to connect
through a LAN and automatically detect network settings. This doesn't work.
How can I fix this?
I also have a Linksys WMP54G wireless card as well. I haven't tried that
one in the Win98SE machine yet, so I will swap the D-Link Wireless for
that one if I still can't get any luck with the D-Link card.

Fred

fred

fred wrote:
> I have an old machine running Windows 98SE. All the other machines run
> Windows XP Home or MacOS X Tiger and can all see the internet and each
> other. Internet connection and LAN connection is through a Linksys ADSL
> wireless gateway.
> I put a D-Link DWL-G510 wireless card in the the Win98SE machine.
> The D-Link configuration/monitoring utility says it is connected to my
> access point. WPA PSK encryption is configured correctly for the
> wireless card on the Win98SE machine.
> I can't ping the gateway or any other computer on the LAN.
> The IP address shown in the winipcfg table for the wireless card does
> not conform to the rest of my network. It should be like 192.168.1.90 or
> something, but is instead a comepletely different IP number.
> TCP/IP properties for the wireless card is set to obtain IP
> automatically and to use DHCP, but this does not appear to be working
> since it is not getting the right IP address.
> I've tried running the Internet connection wizard, choosing to connect
> through a LAN and automatically detect network settings. This doesn't work.
> How can I fix this?
> I also have a Linksys WMP54G wireless card as well. I haven't tried that
> one in the Win98SE machine yet, so I will swap the D-Link Wireless for
> that one if I still can't get any luck with the D-Link card.
>
> Fred

Don't worry. The problem seems to have sorted itself out by "magic".
I tried a "release all" and "renew all" with winipcfg and it came alive.
Incidently, I had tried this several times before without success.
Windows 98 just seems to be temperamental. Or just plain mental.

Fred

fred

"fred" <> wrote in message
news:...

> Windows 98 just seems to be temperamental. Or just plain mental.

Maybe so, but it remains the third most popular OS for surfing the net, more
popular than Mac and Linux put together...
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/June/os.php

Mark Rae