Unable to access Internet via Wireless PCMCIA card?
Boaby
I am puzzled to why I am no longer able to connect to the internet
using a PCMCIA card? One day, the card just stop connecting to the
router to get an IP address? I had never any issues with the card until
now?
The laptop's OS is Windows XP SP3. I have checked Windows updates for
any updates for my laptop. No updates at the moment. I have also
updated Belkin PCMCIA card to the latest drivers, still no avail. I
have rebooted the laptop, reinserted card and uninstalled drivers for
the card, reinstalled and it just simply refused to get an IP address
from my router. I changed SSID's and router wifi password many times,
the card can see the network and accepts the password but just cant
seem to get an IP address?
I even did a netsh winsock reset, netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt and
netsh firewall reset via the command prompt. Still the same issue?
Truly baffling? All other PC and Macintosh's can connect no problems to
my router via open and encrypted wifi network. Just my single Toshiba
satellite with a Belkin PCMCIA card cant seem to connect?
I don't have my router set to a fixed ip address range. So, I am
thinking to try a wifi USB stick. BINGO! I can now successfully connect
to my router using an edimax usb wifi usb adapter. I thought maybe the
Belkin PCMCIA adapter is a dud? I then got another 3 PCMCIA (Linksys,
Buffalo & 3com) PCMCIA wifi cards and they are doing exactly the same
thing as the Belkin?
So for now, I have the wifi edimax usb adapter connected to my Toshiba
satellite laptop and connected to the net with no problems but I just
cant understand why would the 4 PCMCIA cards cant connect to the router
to get an IP address. I checked for static IP on my laptop and is
confirmed to set to obtain an IP automatically.
Sorry for the long post. Hope I have made my point nice and clear.
Anyone with any ideas can shed any light on this problem?
Thanks,
Boaby
COLA is a dump.
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You should post to alt.internet.wireless.
chuckcar
news:2009122918145216807-nothanks@spamnet:
> Hello folks,
>
> I am puzzled to why I am no longer able to connect to the internet
> using a PCMCIA card? One day, the card just stop connecting to the
> router to get an IP address? I had never any issues with the card
> until now?
>
> The laptop's OS is Windows XP SP3. I have checked Windows updates for
> any updates for my laptop. No updates at the moment. I have also
> updated Belkin PCMCIA card to the latest drivers, still no avail. I
> have rebooted the laptop, reinserted card and uninstalled drivers for
> the card, reinstalled and it just simply refused to get an IP address
> from my router. I changed SSID's and router wifi password many times,
> the card can see the network and accepts the password but just cant
> seem to get an IP address?
>
Did you update the drivers or the firmware for the card?
> I even did a netsh winsock reset, netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt and
> netsh firewall reset via the command prompt. Still the same issue?
> Truly baffling? All other PC and Macintosh's can connect no problems
> to my router via open and encrypted wifi network. Just my single
> Toshiba satellite with a Belkin PCMCIA card cant seem to connect?
>
Did you try a ping or a tracert?
> I don't have my router set to a fixed ip address range. So, I am
> thinking to try a wifi USB stick. BINGO! I can now successfully
> connect to my router using an edimax usb wifi usb adapter. I thought
> maybe the Belkin PCMCIA adapter is a dud? I then got another 3 PCMCIA
> (Linksys, Buffalo & 3com) PCMCIA wifi cards and they are doing exactly
> the same thing as the Belkin?
>
> So for now, I have the wifi edimax usb adapter connected to my Toshiba
> satellite laptop and connected to the net with no problems but I just
> cant understand why would the 4 PCMCIA cards cant connect to the
> router to get an IP address. I checked for static IP on my laptop and
> is confirmed to set to obtain an IP automatically.
>
> Sorry for the long post. Hope I have made my point nice and clear.
> Anyone with any ideas can shed any light on this problem?
>
We *far* prefer them to ones like: "I get error message 0xcff04a7f how
do I fix it?"
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chuckcar
news:rn4lj5l0h128laeb4...@4ax.com:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:22:07 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar <ch...@nil.car>
> wrote:
>
>>Did you try a ping or a tracert?>
>
> *sigh*
>
> "it just simply refused to get an IP address"
>
> No IP. What's he going to ping or traceroute?
Anything. To get the error message and/or negative results. You *will*
get some output.
Boaby
<ev...@theobvious.espphotography.com> said:
> Does your laptop have more than one PCMCIA slot? Have you tried the
> other slots?
>
> Have you tried another PCMCIA device in the laptop?
Hello folks,
Thank you for some suggestions and feedback.
I have checked all 4 PCMCIA wifi cards are showing ok in device
manager. No yellow or red cross on the icon. The device status shows
all 4 devices are working properly. All 4 PCMCIA cards can see the
wireless network and authenticate the network key but an IP address
cant be assigned on all 4 PCMCIA cards but if I use a wireless USB
dongle instead, no problems, Windows XP gets the IP address from my
router fine.
My Toshiba laptop only has one PCMCIA cardbus slot. The only other
devices I have tried on my laptop's PCMCIA slot is 4 PCMCIA wireless
cards. Are you suggesting that I should try using an ethernet port
PCMCIA card adapter?
If all else fails, then I might going to back all data on the laptop
and try a reformat.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Boaby
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Boaby
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313896
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Hi
>
folks,
Thanks for the suggestion and ideas folks, but I am thinking of just
bite the bullet and just use the wireless usb dongle than using the
PCMCIA wireless cards to connect to my home wireless network.
Last resort for me was to take the affected laptop to different
wireless access point and it still doing the same symptoms as it was
with my home internet connection. That is using all four PCMCIA
wireless cardbus cards? But, put the wireless usb dongle, the internet
is working no problems on the affected laptop.
I think I just use the usb dongle to connect to my home wireless
internet and back up all current data on the affected laptop and try a
hard drive format.
Thanks for the advice from the previous posters that have given me some
suggestions to try but I think this DHCP problem seem to be a lost
cause?
Thanks,
Boaby