Delete Network on XP SP2

[Guest]

I have a Compaq tower running 98SE and a HP Pavillion dv6000 running SP SP2.

I had those connected up in a network and was able to connect to the printer
on the Compaq from the HP.

They are connected from a Belkin Wireless Router via the ethernet ports.

I have been trying to get the HP to connect wirelessly and tried to set up a
wireless network via the HP, and promptly lost my connectivity to the Compaq.

I think that if I can reverse out the attempt to set up the wireless
function from the HP I can get my network back via the ethernet connection.

So how do I do that on the HP?

 

[Guest]

I have a Compaq tower running 98SE and a HP Pavillion dv6000 running SP SP2.

I had those connected up in a network and was able to connect to the printer
on the Compaq from the HP.

They are connected from a Belkin Wireless Router via the ethernet ports.

I have been trying to get the HP to connect wirelessly and tried to set up a
wireless network via the HP, and promptly lost my connectivity to the Compaq.

I think that if I can reverse out the attempt to set up the wireless
function from the HP I can get my network back via the ethernet connection.

So how do I do that on the HP?

Turn the wireless OFF and connect the laptop to a LAN port with Ethernet
cable and you will be able to connect.
You don't have to Delete or mess with your NICs!.
Could you please post here before doing any thing to your wireless, with the
following Info:
1- What wireless router are you using?.
2- Do you get an error message?, what is it?.
3- Did you secure your Wireless network?.
4- Are you able to access the Router Configuration page from the laptop?.
To the following group:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...501-144b-4e8e-baf9-03f78faf7e85&lang=en&cr=US
Set up a wireless network
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/wireless.mspx
Wireless by Barb Bowman:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/expert/bowman_wirelesssecurity.mspx
Charlie Russel,Using a Wireless Laptop at Work and at Home
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/tabletpc/expert/russell_tabletlaptop.mspx

HTH.
nass

 

[Guest]

Turn the wireless OFF and connect the laptop to a LAN port with Ethernet
cable and you will be able to connect.
You don't have to Delete or mess with your NICs!.
Could you please post here before doing any thing to your wireless, with the
following Info:
1- What wireless router are you using?.
2- Do you get an error message?, what is it?.
3- Did you secure your Wireless network?.
4- Are you able to access the Router Configuration page from the laptop?.
To the following group:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...501-144b-4e8e-baf9-03f78faf7e85&lang=en&cr=US
Set up a wireless network
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/wireless.mspx
Wireless by Barb Bowman:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/expert/bowman_wirelesssecurity.mspx
Charlie Russel,Using a Wireless Laptop at Work and at Home
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/tabletpc/expert/russell_tabletlaptop.mspx

HTH.
nass

Thank you nass.

I may have used the wrong terminology in describing how the two computers
were networked in my original message.

They are both connected to the lan side of the Belkin Wireless router.

I have never had data transfer wirelessly, only through the lan side, which
is why I was trying to set up the wireless network, in the first place.

As to your questions,

1. I am using a Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router, Model F5D8230-4.
2. I have never had an error message, occasionally my laptop tells me it
cannot acquire an address, but unplugging the router, waiting about 5
minutes, and then plugging it back in, solves the problem.
3. I do not have a secured wireless network.
4. When I first got the router, a few months ago, I was able to get to a web
page, I think by entering a router address. It was all greek to me.

My laptop says it is connected to the router, but there is no data going
through wirelessly.

Again, thanks for the help.

 

[Jim]

Thank you nass.

I may have used the wrong terminology in describing how the two computers
were networked in my original message.

They are both connected to the lan side of the Belkin Wireless router.

I have never had data transfer wirelessly, only through the lan side,
which
is why I was trying to set up the wireless network, in the first place.

As to your questions,

1. I am using a Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router, Model F5D8230-4.
2. I have never had an error message, occasionally my laptop tells me it
cannot acquire an address, but unplugging the router, waiting about 5
minutes, and then plugging it back in, solves the problem.
3. I do not have a secured wireless network.
4. When I first got the router, a few months ago, I was able to get to a
web
page, I think by entering a router address. It was all greek to me.

My laptop says it is connected to the router, but there is no data going
through wirelessly.

Again, thanks for the help.

You have a misconception that the ethernet connections are somehow different
from the wireless ones. In fact, both your ethenet connections and your
wireliess one form a lan.

Not having a secured wireless network is a very very serious mistake.

Not being able to get to a web page through its http address indicates a dns
error. The computer cannot find the dns server. The dns server usually
resides on your isp's systems.

Not being able to get an ip address indicates a dhcp error. Perhaps you
didn't setup the computer correctly. As an aside, I should mention that a
lan with only 3 computers does not need the dhcp facility.
Instead, you manage the lan by entering all ip addresses in the hosts file
and by ensuring that the hosts files are identical. It is a simple matter
to keep these three files identical. It is not so simple to keep
several hundred hosts files identical.

The first thing to do is to try to ping the laptop from the other two and to
ping each of the computers connected via the ethernet from the laptop. If
this is not successful, then something (most likely a
firewall) is blocking ICMP packets (that is the abbreviation for Internet
Control and Management Protocol). Don't bother with any more checks until
after you solve this problem.

It would be useful if you post the results of ipconfig/all for each
computer.

Jim

 

[Guest]

You have a misconception that the ethernet connections are somehow different
from the wireless ones. In fact, both your ethenet connections and your
wireliess one form a lan.

Not having a secured wireless network is a very very serious mistake.

Not being able to get to a web page through its http address indicates a dns
error. The computer cannot find the dns server. The dns server usually
resides on your isp's systems.

Not being able to get an ip address indicates a dhcp error. Perhaps you
didn't setup the computer correctly. As an aside, I should mention that a
lan with only 3 computers does not need the dhcp facility.
Instead, you manage the lan by entering all ip addresses in the hosts file
and by ensuring that the hosts files are identical. It is a simple matter
to keep these three files identical. It is not so simple to keep
several hundred hosts files identical.

The first thing to do is to try to ping the laptop from the other two and to
ping each of the computers connected via the ethernet from the laptop. If
this is not successful, then something (most likely a
firewall) is blocking ICMP packets (that is the abbreviation for Internet
Control and Management Protocol). Don't bother with any more checks until
after you solve this problem.

It would be useful if you post the results of ipconfig/all for each
computer.

Jim


Thank you for the information, Jim.

I do not have DSL or cable connected to the wireless router, as I have
neither of them available to me. Stuck with POTS dial up.

I think that is my problem, as the instructions for the wireless router say
to connect up the cable modem or DSL to the Green connection and I don't have
anything to connect there, so the only wires going into the router are the
ethernet cables from the compaq and HP.

If I get to the point that I have a chance to connect up via high speed,
broad band, I will start looking at security, until then I suspect that it is
not a problem. (I could be wrong and if so, I suspect that someone will
correct me.)

How do I access the ipconfig file? Incidentally, I have only the two
computers, the Compaq and the laptop HP.