Biebel
04-09-2004, 06:21 AM
I have a dell Inspiron 5150. That one has a Truemobile1300 which kinda ****s so an alternative card was necessary. A friend of mine has a 54 mbps card from Netgear I used for a couple of days and that one worked flawless with the dell laptop so I decided to buy a Netgear card.
I took the latest model, the WG511T, which has the following specs:
802.11g standard compliance; interoperable with existing 802.11b and 802.11g networks, Frequency 2.412 - 2.472 Ghz (ETSI)
I have a USR 2249 Access Point, as I have 2 more pcs (desktops) connecting to the WIFI network (both with USR PCI Cards) which works fine. It has the latest firmware update and utility version installed. The firmware update specs tells me that it is now also 54 mbps compliant, although I have no idea how to test this.
Now, when I install the WG511T card, I can scan for the SSID, it finds it but when I try to connect to it with the WEP settings, it keeps scanning and throws me the error that there is no Wireless Network (XP).
I tried with all their driver versions, from 3.0.0 to 3.3.4, nothing. I tried with and without WEP, tried changing channels, tried with and without MAC filtering, with and without broadcasting the SSID, ... . Nothing helps. The support from Netgear sent me 2 emails, first one to try the most recent driver which I allready tried and to check if there was mac filtering or not. They have been silent now for 5 days.
I'm running out of ideas here, any help would be much, much appreciated.
B.
I took the latest model, the WG511T, which has the following specs:
802.11g standard compliance; interoperable with existing 802.11b and 802.11g networks, Frequency 2.412 - 2.472 Ghz (ETSI)
I have a USR 2249 Access Point, as I have 2 more pcs (desktops) connecting to the WIFI network (both with USR PCI Cards) which works fine. It has the latest firmware update and utility version installed. The firmware update specs tells me that it is now also 54 mbps compliant, although I have no idea how to test this.
Now, when I install the WG511T card, I can scan for the SSID, it finds it but when I try to connect to it with the WEP settings, it keeps scanning and throws me the error that there is no Wireless Network (XP).
I tried with all their driver versions, from 3.0.0 to 3.3.4, nothing. I tried with and without WEP, tried changing channels, tried with and without MAC filtering, with and without broadcasting the SSID, ... . Nothing helps. The support from Netgear sent me 2 emails, first one to try the most recent driver which I allready tried and to check if there was mac filtering or not. They have been silent now for 5 days.
I'm running out of ideas here, any help would be much, much appreciated.
B.