From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 20:32:45 PST
Laurent
It sounds like you have everything connected and
configured correctly...and honestly, if you are using
the Dell D600 with built in wireless, then you are
also using XP...and XP is pretty seamless when it
comes to wireless...
The only thing that comes to mind is that XP likes to
update wireless card firmware...but since this is
built in to the Dell, that's not a problem.
Try this.
right-click on the "My Network Places" and selecting
"Properties". You should have at least two icons
there. One that says "Make a new connection" and
another one that shows the current network connection
that you have (the Dell built-in wireless).
Right-click on the wireless connection and select
properties. Click the box that says "Show icon in
taskbar when connected" This will create a flickering
dual computer icon when traffic is flowing through
this network connection. If it never flickers green,
then you aren't getting any traffic through this NIC.
If you hover your mouse over the icon, you'll get some
statistics for the NIC.
Back to your network connection. You are using a
static IP. Is your Subnet Mask correct? And your DNS
servers? Is the IP that the NIC is set to a part of
the subnet that is configured on your router?
I don't have much experience with XP (don't like it,
but I'll have to go to it soon...company's new
OS...we're going to be getting those Dell d600's soon
too! Awsome machine!)
But I have connected about a dozen PC card wireless
network cards to my current laptop (Dell Lattitude
CPi) and every one of them connected to my home
network wirelessly and a rogue wireless network that
someone at work set up (I suspect someone's lab at
work is hosting a wireless connection!)
Oh...here is one more thing.
There is usually a wireless application that allows
you to configure the wireless card on the client to
match the base station...This app usually shows up in
the task bar and gives you things like signal
strength, the MAC of the wireless card and allow you
to configure the card with the Network ID (SSID) and
whether you're set up in INfrustructure or Ad-Hoc
mode...
This app is seperate from the Network setup. Both must
be set up correctly for the machine to make
connections.
Give these things a try and see what happens.
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- Laurent Daudelin <laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net>
wrote:
> on 11/01/04 17:36, Oliver Brose at
> oliver.brose_at_t-online.de wrote:
>
> >> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:35:31 -0500
> >> From: Laurent Daudelin
> <laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net>
> >
> >> The laptop comes
> >> with a control panel named "TrueMobile 1300
> Client Utility". This control
> >> panel lets me see and connect to network. I can
> see my ABS name and
> >> configure it. Still, no network connection.
> >
> > Hm, if the Dell sees it... can you truly configure
> the APBS from it? I mean
> > not just the Dell's config for that AP, but the
> APBS itself? If not, do you
> > possibly have the APBS set to restrict access to
> certain MACs and did not
> > include the TrueMobile 1300's MAC? This is just a
> guess, as you should not be
> > able to see the APBS for more than half a second
> if your MAC is not listed.
> >
> >> The very intuitive system reports "Wireless: no
> network cable plugged".
> >
> > Wow, that is of "No keyboard detected, press F10"
> quality! Love that!
> >
> > Oliver :)
>
> Hmmm, I wouldn't know what to use to configure the
> ABS from the PC (and I'm
> not even sure I would like to try it in fear of
> rendering my ABS useless!).
>
> There are no MAC restrictions. I can see my network
> in the Dell TrueMobile
> utility as long as I leave it open.
>
> Besides the TCP/IP settings in the network
> connection for the wireless card,
> is there anything else I might be missing? Ed?
>
> -Laurent.
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