I bought a Toshiba 802.11g ready laptop a few weeks ago. I've got two
desktops in my home office, and space is tight so I've been using it in
my kitchen but couldn't access the internet.
Friday I bit the bullet and replaced my great Dlink 604 wired only
router with Microsoft's MN-700 Wireless Base Station. The gadget seems
OK - page access and download speeds are both good. The setup was a bit
of a horror show - it kept giving warnings to disable my firewalls (I
had!) and wouldn't configure. I finally used the web interface to
configure. This worked, but compared to my Dlink was pretty skimpy on
options. In the process, I lost my home network between the two
desktops. I finally got that back.
Anyway, I'm able to use the laptop in the kitchen now and use the
wireless connection to connect to the net. What I haven't been able to
do after many frustrating hours is add the laptop to my home network.
When I try to set up the Toshiba for a network, the only choice it gives
me is the ethernet adaptor in the laptop (the wireless adapter is not
shown as a choice). When I do choose the ethernet connection it warns me
the connection is not plugged in. Duh - that's the point of being
wireless. It lets me choose to add to the network anyway by building a
bridge. This is does (rebooting the PC in the process). When I
reestablish the wireless connection, it tells me it's working fine. But
I still can't see the folders I'm sharing on the desktop, and I can't
see the printer connected to one of the desktops. Worse yet, I lose my
Internet Connection. I've dropped the bridge and the Internet is back,
but still no home network.
My main desktop (that I first configured the network on) runs XP Pro. My
other desktop is a Windows 95 machine. The Toshiba is an XP Home
machine. I was able to configure the Windows 95 box to be part of the
network, why can't I configure the Toshiba.
Any help would be appreciated.
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