Hello All,
I have a problem with a wireless connection between my
Dell laptop with a Dell TrueMobile 1300 pcmcia wireless card and a
Linksys WAG545 router, I have covered all the angles so I am looking
for inspiration.

To set the scene I have 2 wireless routers [1 Linksys & 1 Netgear] and
2 broadband connections into my house, I have 1 PC connected to each
router and I have removed any wireless security just to take that out
of the equation, each router is on a different channel, I will call
the PC's A & B and routers 1 [Netgear] & 2 [Linksys].

I can connect PC A wirelessley to both routers 1 & 2 and get an IP
address from the local DHCP, my PC connection is configured to
dynamically get the IP, so that works on both routers/broadband
connection. PC 2 will only connect to Router 1 wirelessley, connecting
to router 2 always fails with "limited or no connectivity", if i do an
"ipconfig /all" I can see that windows has assigned my wireless
connection the default ip autoconfiguration address of 169.254.x.x, I
can however hardwire PC 2 to router 2 and it works fine, I get a
correct IP address allocated [192.168.1.xxx].

Something else I tried was configuring PC 2 with a static [manual] IP
address and this then DID connect to router 2 wirelssley OK however I
was getting issues where DNS names could not be resolved even though I
had stated both DNS servers to use.

The issue I have is why I only get the problem with PC 2 and router 2,
I know that each component is OK as it works in another combination,
the only thing I can think of is maybe a compatability issue between
the Linksys wireless configuration and the Dell configuration - but
what ??


thanks for any help on this..

cheers, Mark.