The Duc Pond

I posted this in a few newsgroups. Please contact me if you can help:

My router is a Linksys BEFW11S4. I’m trying to get a WUSB11 Wireless USB Network Adapter on a Windows 2000 machine to talk to the network.

I tested it with my Windows XP laptop and it connected without a hitch. I’m convinced that a big part of this is the fact that XP has wireless connectivity built in and that Linksys’ WLAN Monitor software is part of why this won’t work on my Win2K machine.

I know this computer can see the router because the Linksys software correctly shows the router’s MAC address, SSID, channel, etc. and lists the status as “Connected”. The software says, “You are connected to the access point, but
the Internet cannot be found”.

I’ve tried DHCP, but even though the router shows that it assigns the computer an IP within the DHCP range (192.168.1.106), the computer thinks it’s getting something like 169.254.145.210. What actually happens is that when I first log on the computer actually WILL have the 192.168.1.106 address, but within minutes will automatically switch to the 169 address. At this point the router will still think the Win2K machine is at 192.168.1.106.

Then I tried setting a static IP (192.168.1.50) and manually setting the gateway and DNS servers. Still no luck. I can’t even ping the router (transmit failed, error code 65).

With either DHCP or a static IP, when I “View workgroup computers” on my XP laptop, I see the Win2000 computer (but can’t connect to it). If I ping “neo” (the name of the Win2000 PC) from the XP computer the IP address will be resolved properly, but again, no reply.

I’m at a loss. Your suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.