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James Sefton
Hi,
I hope someone has seen this before cos its driving me nuts!
I have a Linksys wireless router that serves 5 workstations. (1 laptop, 4
tablet pc's)
The workstations are all running Windows XP and are mostly fully up to date
with windowsupdate. (the pc in question is certainly up to date.)
They were all setup and working nicely. I setup a key on the router for 64
bit encryption and then entered the key into the workstations when prompted
and all worked fine.
One of the tablet pc's was replaced by a newer model last week and the old
one was turned off and put in the cupboard out of the way.
Today, someone wanted to use the old tablet so they plugged it in and
switched it on to find that it would not work on the network.
I have checked the settings and key over and over again. They appear to be
identical is every way to the other machines yet the network does not work
correctly.
What is even more confusing is that is does appear to be partly working, let
me explain.
It will contact the DHCP server that is on the network and get an IP
address. I seem to be able to release and renew this IP using the usual
ipconfig stuff too.
I can ping 127.0.0.1
I can ping 192.168.17.8 (which is the local ip that was allocated by dhcp)
I cannot ping 192.168.17.1 (DHCP+DNS Server)
I cannot ping 192.168.17.254 (Gateway to the outside world)
Since i cant ping the gateway, i did not bother trying to ping any further.
The results of a ROUTE PRINT look perfectly normal. (i dont have to hand to
paste in but i can get if someone would like to see.)
The server is an SBS2003 server and houses dns & dhcp.
The workstation have all joined the domain and the users of the respective
computers are in the local administrators group.
I have tried logging on to the machine with local administrator and getting
the wireless connection to work but that made no difference.
If i disable the wireless connection and enable the wired connection (and
obviously connect a cable) then it works fine.
The windows XP firewall is disabled.
The computer has norton antivirus on it. It is a version that does not
include a personal firewall but i disabled it anyway to be sure, still no
joy.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
James Sefton
I hope someone has seen this before cos its driving me nuts!
I have a Linksys wireless router that serves 5 workstations. (1 laptop, 4
tablet pc's)
The workstations are all running Windows XP and are mostly fully up to date
with windowsupdate. (the pc in question is certainly up to date.)
They were all setup and working nicely. I setup a key on the router for 64
bit encryption and then entered the key into the workstations when prompted
and all worked fine.
One of the tablet pc's was replaced by a newer model last week and the old
one was turned off and put in the cupboard out of the way.
Today, someone wanted to use the old tablet so they plugged it in and
switched it on to find that it would not work on the network.
I have checked the settings and key over and over again. They appear to be
identical is every way to the other machines yet the network does not work
correctly.
What is even more confusing is that is does appear to be partly working, let
me explain.
It will contact the DHCP server that is on the network and get an IP
address. I seem to be able to release and renew this IP using the usual
ipconfig stuff too.
I can ping 127.0.0.1
I can ping 192.168.17.8 (which is the local ip that was allocated by dhcp)
I cannot ping 192.168.17.1 (DHCP+DNS Server)
I cannot ping 192.168.17.254 (Gateway to the outside world)
Since i cant ping the gateway, i did not bother trying to ping any further.
The results of a ROUTE PRINT look perfectly normal. (i dont have to hand to
paste in but i can get if someone would like to see.)
The server is an SBS2003 server and houses dns & dhcp.
The workstation have all joined the domain and the users of the respective
computers are in the local administrators group.
I have tried logging on to the machine with local administrator and getting
the wireless connection to work but that made no difference.
If i disable the wireless connection and enable the wired connection (and
obviously connect a cable) then it works fine.
The windows XP firewall is disabled.
The computer has norton antivirus on it. It is a version that does not
include a personal firewall but i disabled it anyway to be sure, still no
joy.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
James Sefton