Hi all,
I have a wireless network with a WIFI Hub/router that accepts both
wireless and cable connections.
My notepad (win2k) has both an Ethernet network card and a wifi card.
I have another computer, a desktop (winXP), that connects to the
router via a wireless card.
Everything is set up to work with DHCP.
Everything worked really well until i connected my notepad to the
router via the 100Mbit ethernet connection (cable). I disabled the
wireless card to avoid routing problems. Everything worked ok. Both
computers could see each other.
But when i tried to drop the cable connection and connect via the
wireless card (having enabled everything again, of course) i get this
strange situation:
The router sees that there is a device connected to its Wireless LAN.
It does not give it a DHCP address.
The notepad complains with "DHCP server unavailable".
When i leave the cable connected and try a ipconfig /renew, the
wireless adapter gets its IP address, but then if i disconnect the
cable, my notepad is isolated, no ping possible, nothing. As if the
routing was set up throug the ethernet interface, even for the new IP
address.
When i try configure everything manually, exactly as if the DHCP
allocation had worked, no ping, same problem.
I suspect that my laptop somehow got stuck with a bad routing strategy
or something, but unfortunately my network skills don't go far enough
to get me out of this one.
Please can a kind soul help me?
I'll appreciate any help
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