wireless ip settings

havingupgraded from win98 to XP sp2 now Explorer in my notebook
refuses to work.

router: D-Link DSL-G604T
Mac address for notebook adapter is accepted

notebook does connect but explorer does not find the router.

ip 169.254.64.64 shouldnt' this be in the range of
192.168.1.x ?

subnet mask 255.255.0.0
default gatewy none
dns server none
wins server none

zero config is active

It is a total mistery to me.

"Lindie" <Lindie@magichans.com> wrote in message
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> havingupgraded from win98 to XP sp2 now Explorer in my notebook
> refuses to work.
>
> router: D-Link DSL-G604T
> Mac address for notebook adapter is accepted
>
> notebook does connect but explorer does not find the router.
>
> ip 169.254.64.64 shouldnt' this be in the range of

Your computer is connected to the router on the wireless, but the computer
doesn't have an IP that's being used on the router that's going to allow the
computer to access the internet or the router's admin screens, since the
computer is not using an IP on the router. The 169 IP is assigned by the O/S
when the O/S cannot get or persist an IP from a DHCP Server on the network,
which is in the router..

The 169 IP is a sign of trouble. It most likely is some kind of
mis-configuration on the wireless card, router or both. It can also be
defective equipment too.

> 192.168.1.x ?

Yes, that's an IP range the computer should have, but it's not getting one,
because of the information above.

Thanks for that: a fault maybe; I also tried to set the IP address
manually but that doesn't help either.
It all worked until I upgraded to XP and then downloaded several
patches; after that nothing.
I thus don't think it is the card but some setting on the laptop. the
card does find the router but cannot connect to it- due to the wrong
IP

Any suggestions?

"Lindie" <Lindie@magichans.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for that: a fault maybe; I also tried to set the IP address
> manually but that doesn't help either.

No that's not going to help either, because the computer has some kind of
mis-configuration between the router aend the card.

> It all worked until I upgraded to XP and then downloaded several
> patches; after that nothing.

A driver problem with the card possibly? Did you go to the laptop's Web site
and download software specific to the make, model of the computer, and the
O/S being used. You have to do that when you have upgraded like that.

> I thus don't think it is the card but some setting on the laptop. the
> card does find the router but cannot connect to it- due to the wrong
> IP

I suggest that you take the laptop to a public spot like a wireless cafe to
see if it will connect and use the Internet, if you can't get it to work
with your router, just to see if it has a possibilty of working.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

You're in a tough situation, because you upgraded to XP, which I'll assume
it was over the O/S that was already on the laptop that was installed by the
computer manufacturer. You do that, then the manufacture's tech support of
the laptop will not support you, which I was going to suggest that.

Can the laptop even connect to the router using a wired connection?

Is the 169 IP there before you even try to make a connection wired or
wireless? Sometimes the 169 IP will get locked and won't be released. Did
you do an IPconfig /release and IPconfig /renew if the 169 IP is being held
to see if the O/S will release it?

"Lindie" <Lindie@magichans.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for that: a fault maybe; I also tried to set the IP address
> manually but that doesn't help either.
> It all worked until I upgraded to XP and then downloaded several
> patches; after that nothing.
> I thus don't think it is the card but some setting on the laptop. the
> card does find the router but cannot connect to it- due to the wrong
> IP
>

ok - walk us thru the basics...

1 - XP boots and does "something" try to find the wireless SSID ?
2 - does the "status" of that wireless network connection show "connected" ?

This is a layer thing - you must first be connected to the wireless access point
which has nothing to do with getting an IP address.... yet -
wireless AP -> SSID, any encryption enabled ? WEP, WPA, or MAC filtering ?

After getting a wireless connection - next is the tcp/ip thing -
Can you connect to the router with a wired connection - Ethernet ?
How do you know how the router is setup - DHCP, IP range, etc

How is XP setup - firewall ?? turned on or anything else blocking IP connections
?