Wireless agongy

Hi all,

I had been using a wifi net for my win2000 desktop, my winXP notebook, and
my wireless printer for nearly 2 years w/o trouble. I had a Linksys WRT54G
router with the desktop ethernetted to it. Then my desktop broke so I got a
new Dell XPS 400 XP machine. I had a lot of trouble getting it online and
finally bought a new WRT54G and finally got internet for the desktop. Now I
can't get the winXP notebook on the internet. The notebook sees the wifi net
but can't access any sites. I used a passphrase when I setup the desktop
encription and I copied the generated key to the notebook. (I'm using
WEP64.) Can anyone give me advice?

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"Jim789" <> wrote in message
news:24209670-3280-4AA3-BCEC-...
> Hi all,
>
> I had been using a wifi net for my win2000 desktop, my winXP notebook, and
> my wireless printer for nearly 2 years w/o trouble. I had a Linksys
> WRT54G
> router with the desktop ethernetted to it. Then my desktop broke so I got
> a
> new Dell XPS 400 XP machine. I had a lot of trouble getting it online and
> finally bought a new WRT54G and finally got internet for the desktop. Now
> I
> can't get the winXP notebook on the internet. The notebook sees the wifi
> net
> but can't access any sites. I used a passphrase when I setup the desktop
> encription and I copied the generated key to the notebook. (I'm using
> WEP64.) Can anyone give me advice?

Disable WEP. Does it all work? Can each machine ping the router? Can each
machine ping, say, www.google.com?

If so, re-enable encryption - WPA-PSK (not WEP) - and ensure thatthe
encryption key is correctly entered, especially, if in ASCII or HEX format
(don't mix the two)...

__spc__

Thanks for the reply. I used the desktop to disable WEP on the router and
then disabled it on the notebook and restarted the notebook. I could ping
the router and had internet. Then I re-enabled WEP on the router and network
and it still worked. I don't undersand why but what the heck.

I would like to use wpa but I'm not sure the notebook supports it. At least
when I click Data Encription from the Properties window I only get Disable or
WEP as options. Is there some special way to enable WPA? This is a Gateway
notebook purchased in Dec 03 and maybe wpa wasn't available then.

"__spc__" wrote:

>
> "Jim789" <> wrote in message
> news:24209670-3280-4AA3-BCEC-...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had been using a wifi net for my win2000 desktop, my winXP notebook, and
> > my wireless printer for nearly 2 years w/o trouble. I had a Linksys
> > WRT54G
> > router with the desktop ethernetted to it. Then my desktop broke so I got
> > a
> > new Dell XPS 400 XP machine. I had a lot of trouble getting it online and
> > finally bought a new WRT54G and finally got internet for the desktop. Now
> > I
> > can't get the winXP notebook on the internet. The notebook sees the wifi
> > net
> > but can't access any sites. I used a passphrase when I setup the desktop
> > encription and I copied the generated key to the notebook. (I'm using
> > WEP64.) Can anyone give me advice?
>
> Disable WEP. Does it all work? Can each machine ping the router? Can each
> machine ping, say, www.google.com?
>
> If so, re-enable encryption - WPA-PSK (not WEP) - and ensure thatthe
> encryption key is correctly entered, especially, if in ASCII or HEX format
> (don't mix the two)...
>
>
>

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I checked with Gateway and they say I have wep only.

Thanks for your help, SPC.

"__spc__" wrote:

>
> "Jim789" <> wrote in message
> news:24209670-3280-4AA3-BCEC-...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had been using a wifi net for my win2000 desktop, my winXP notebook, and
> > my wireless printer for nearly 2 years w/o trouble. I had a Linksys
> > WRT54G
> > router with the desktop ethernetted to it. Then my desktop broke so I got
> > a
> > new Dell XPS 400 XP machine. I had a lot of trouble getting it online and
> > finally bought a new WRT54G and finally got internet for the desktop. Now
> > I
> > can't get the winXP notebook on the internet. The notebook sees the wifi
> > net
> > but can't access any sites. I used a passphrase when I setup the desktop
> > encription and I copied the generated key to the notebook. (I'm using
> > WEP64.) Can anyone give me advice?
>
> Disable WEP. Does it all work? Can each machine ping the router? Can each
> machine ping, say, www.google.com?
>
> If so, re-enable encryption - WPA-PSK (not WEP) - and ensure thatthe
> encryption key is correctly entered, especially, if in ASCII or HEX format
> (don't mix the two)...
>
>
>

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