Wireless win2kpro problem

I have basically given up on this after several weeks of failure. Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. If I take up a lot of room please excuse me.

Here is my setup:

I have a D-Link WBR-1310 wireless router & 3 PC's
PC1 is a 333Mhz P2 running win2k pro SP4 This one is hard wired to the router.
PC2 & 3 are Dell Latitude C610 notebooks one running win2k pro SP4, the other XPpro SP2 I am sharing a Linksys wpc54g adapter between the notebooks.

The wired PC connects to the internet it is the win2k notebook that's the problem. I've searched all sorts of tech sites & forums but I can't resolve the problem. The linksys s/w on the notebook indicated a connection between it & the router but when I ping the router there is no answer. I have tried removing security settings but still no connection.

I have basically given up and resorted to using my wifes notebook, the one running XPpro as it connects with no problem.

Any suggestions?

 

post the results of "ipconfig /all" So we can see what the wireless is picking up.

Have you confirmed there are no drivers errors under device manager.

 

There were no driver errors. The Linksys CD offered a choice of four drivers with a recommended one. That is the one I picked.

This is what I get when I do an ipconfig /all.
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Windows 2000 IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Eds-PC
Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Wireless-G Notebook Adapter WPC54G V3
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-10-97-8A-B6
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.0.233
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :

 

The IP (169.254.0.233) is a fallback IP when it fails to make a connection of any kind.

What type if encryption method are you using with the wireless card? (WEP, WPA) I do not think Win2k supports WPA, unless this was added with the driver.

Try disabling encryption, and Disable the Firewall and see what error you get (run ipconfig /all again). When you bring up the wireless CP to view available wireless sites. Does it shows your router?

 

How do you turn the firewall off? When I click on firewall settings I see an area for DMZ HOST and another area for VPN PASSTHROUGH. DMZ is not enabled but the VPN has PPTP & IPSec Passthrough enabled.

 

The firewall on the notebook is what needs to be off.

 

Thanks for the clarification blue68f100. I'll try that when I return home tonight. I am using COMODO for my firewall, also I did turn WEP off a couple of times. Have never tried using WPA.

 

Well I turned off the firewall on the notebook but the results are the same. The linksys S/W on the notebook shows a pictogram of the adapter & router connected but not the internet and when I do an ipconfig /all the output is the same as last night.

Any other suggestions?

 

This was with no security on the router, correct?

Download a copy of netstumber and see if it detects any AP's. If not are you sure you have the correct driver?

Does the linksys software includes a site manager.

 

I must confess to having one of those DUH moments. The notebook does have a 10/100 plug so just for the heck of it I wired the router to it. Lo and behold it still wouldn't connect to the router. This is strange as before I brought the notebook home I had it plugged in at work and it was working. I guess I'll have to check this out first.

 

That sounds like the chipset was not loaded corectly for the MB. Or things are turned off in the bios.

 

Please don't use WEP. It's very easily cracked. Use one of the WPA flavors if you want that router to be truly secure.