DHCP problem

[Chris]

I have recently installed a 3Com wireless adsl router and PC card. I have
the router connected to the ADSL line; my desktop connected by cable to the
router; and my laptop connected to the router using the wireless PC card.
The desktop cable connection works fine, high speed, all OK.
But with the laptop, some odd things are happening - of which the most
reproduceable is that:
a) on power up and loading XP Pro on the laptop, the wireless card (which is
set to get ip address from DHCP) deafults to a errro condition set IP
address. When I do a repair on the card, I get the message "DHCP Failure".
b) if I then connect a cable between laptop and router, and enable the
ethernet port, DHCP allocates the ethernet port the correct address.
c) if then I do a repair on the wireless card, DHCP works OK and all is
well.
d) I then disconnect the cable between laptop and router, and load IE6, and
it gets settings sorted and I am wireless fully again, both LAN and Internet
through router gateway.

I have downloaded the latest driver from the £Com site, and have checked all
the known problems with the wireless PC card, without avail.

So, I start to suspect XP rather than the card.

Anyone with any ideas - please let me know...at leats I have a bypass, using
the cable to sort of get me started...but its not ideal.

Regards
Chris Davies

 

[Sari Yezegiel]

Chris wrote:
| I have recently installed a 3Com wireless adsl router and PC card. I
| have the router connected to the ADSL line; my desktop connected by
| cable to the router; and my laptop connected to the router using the
| wireless PC card. The desktop cable connection works fine, high
| speed, all OK.
| But with the laptop, some odd things are happening - of which the most
| reproduceable is that:
| a) on power up and loading XP Pro on the laptop, the wireless card
| (which is set to get ip address from DHCP) deafults to a errro
| condition set IP address. When I do a repair on the card, I get the
| message "DHCP Failure". b) if I then connect a cable between laptop
| and router, and enable the ethernet port, DHCP allocates the ethernet
| port the correct address.
| c) if then I do a repair on the wireless card, DHCP works OK and all
| is well.
| d) I then disconnect the cable between laptop and router, and load
| IE6, and it gets settings sorted and I am wireless fully again, both
| LAN and Internet through router gateway.
|
| I have downloaded the latest driver from the £Com site, and have
| checked all the known problems with the wireless PC card, without
| avail.
|
| So, I start to suspect XP rather than the card.
|
| Anyone with any ideas - please let me know...at leats I have a
| bypass, using the cable to sort of get me started...but its not ideal.
|
| Regards
| Chris Davies


*plonk*

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.




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[Eloise Whitiner]

Chris wrote:
| I have recently installed a 3Com wireless adsl router and PC card. I
| have the router connected to the ADSL line; my desktop connected by
| cable to the router; and my laptop connected to the router using the
| wireless PC card. The desktop cable connection works fine, high
| speed, all OK.
| But with the laptop, some odd things are happening - of which the most
| reproduceable is that:
| a) on power up and loading XP Pro on the laptop, the wireless card
| (which is set to get ip address from DHCP) deafults to a errro
| condition set IP address. When I do a repair on the card, I get the
| message "DHCP Failure". b) if I then connect a cable between laptop
| and router, and enable the ethernet port, DHCP allocates the ethernet
| port the correct address.
| c) if then I do a repair on the wireless card, DHCP works OK and all
| is well.
| d) I then disconnect the cable between laptop and router, and load
| IE6, and it gets settings sorted and I am wireless fully again, both
| LAN and Internet through router gateway.
|
| I have downloaded the latest driver from the £Com site, and have
| checked all the known problems with the wireless PC card, without
| avail.
|
| So, I start to suspect XP rather than the card.
|
| Anyone with any ideas - please let me know...at leats I have a
| bypass, using the cable to sort of get me started...but its not ideal.
|
| Regards
| Chris Davies


*plonk*

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.




<[email protected]>
Eloise Whitiner <[email protected]>
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[Phen Harmon]

Chris wrote:
| I have recently installed a 3Com wireless adsl router and PC card. I
| have the router connected to the ADSL line; my desktop connected by
| cable to the router; and my laptop connected to the router using the
| wireless PC card. The desktop cable connection works fine, high
| speed, all OK.
| But with the laptop, some odd things are happening - of which the most
| reproduceable is that:
| a) on power up and loading XP Pro on the laptop, the wireless card
| (which is set to get ip address from DHCP) deafults to a errro
| condition set IP address. When I do a repair on the card, I get the
| message "DHCP Failure". b) if I then connect a cable between laptop
| and router, and enable the ethernet port, DHCP allocates the ethernet
| port the correct address.
| c) if then I do a repair on the wireless card, DHCP works OK and all
| is well.
| d) I then disconnect the cable between laptop and router, and load
| IE6, and it gets settings sorted and I am wireless fully again, both
| LAN and Internet through router gateway.
|
| I have downloaded the latest driver from the £Com site, and have
| checked all the known problems with the wireless PC card, without
| avail.
|
| So, I start to suspect XP rather than the card.
|
| Anyone with any ideas - please let me know...at leats I have a
| bypass, using the cable to sort of get me started...but its not ideal.
|
| Regards
| Chris Davies


*plonk*

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.




<[email protected]>
Phen Harmon <[email protected]>
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