Wireless Network/ICS problem

Hi SuziQ,

You must've gotten really lucky! The techs that I talked to just had me
aimlessly going around in circles, trying things that I had already tried
and it seemed like if it wasn't on the paper in front of them, they didn't
have a clue as to what to do next. I'm glad you got yours working!

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:13:08 -0700, suziQ wrote:

"Lunaray" wrote:

"SKYLAB" is the name of my computer, I don't know why it shows up in the
'Host' field??

I had the exact same problem, and the Linksys support people walked me
through the entire process of making it work... actually they have an online
chat help line and they can help you out...


Just what role does the Linksys play in setting the 'host' name of the
computer? That is what the 'host' field in a 'winipcfg/ipconfig' report is
showing.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:40:18 -0700, Lunaray wrote:

Thanks again Norm, my laptop has a history of old adapters, there was one
that I got when it was new, but I didn't like the way the RJ45 cable plugged
in so I replaced it, then I boght a docking station that had a built in
Ethernet port, so there's a bunch of stuff left over from previous days! I
will remove all this old stuff to try & simplify things, but I doubt if it's
going to help, my wireless adapter still doesn't show up in "winipcfg"!
Could it be that because all of this old stuff is there, "winipcfg" is
picking the wrong info.?

I doubt it. The 'winipcfg' utility will only display what it finds. I
wonder if removing all traces of the WPC54G, drivers and hardware, then
reinstalling them would help? If you have already done that, then you can
disregard that bit of advice.

The issue is that you are not getting a LAN IP address on that adapter, and
'winipcfg' does not seem to think that the adapter exists. I see that you
have posted a new thread specifically addressing the issue; good. I think,
at this point, you should just let this thread die and see if anybody has
any ideas in the new thread; I am out of ideas, myself.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

Thanks again Norman, yes, I've unistalled/reinstalled the adapter several
times but nothing changes, same result each time! I've made a couple of
more posts to different Newsgroups, and to a Dell forum, so maybe someone
will come up with something, I'm sure that there's someone out there that
has had the same problem! Thanks again for your suggestions!