dapsonrock - 3/8/09 at 16:21
I installed a pci wifi card on my motherboard.
The good news is that i can connect to adhoc
and infrasturucture radiowave signal around me, but
the bad news is that i cant surf the net.
When i checked the connection info i found out
that my network card was not assigned a default
gateway. Plz can anyone tell me what the problem
is and how i can beat this problem. or could
it be that my wifi card(Ralink RT2561 802.11g Turbo
wireless network adapter) was not programmed properly.
Its very urgent
Cheers
Fellsider - 3/8/09 at 23:09
Sounds to me like you haven't got the right
driver installed? Ralink is a chipset used by many
WiFi device makers not a specific PCI card,
dapsonrock?
Use the disk that came with your card to
install/reinstall the correct Driver for your opperating
system - and the program used to configure it.
There is no "Default gateway" which you can connect
to. You use the cards utill to scan for
available networks in your location. Usually this is
your own wireless network.
dapsonrock - 5/8/09 at 16:56
I did installed the drivers that came with my
wifi card. The big problem is i can't surf the
inetrnet but i am connected to this adhoc network.
Could it be that this network am connected to
does not have internet connection?
[Edited on 5/8/2009 by festprint]
festprint - 5/8/09 at 17:29
quote:
I did installed
the drivers that came with my wifi card. The
big problem is i can't surf the inetrnet but i
am connected to this adhoc network. Could it be
that this network am connected to does not have
internet connection?
It may show that you are connected, but you
still need permission (password) to access files,
folders, printers and of course the Internet through
that network. That permission or password is the
WPA or the network key, a long string of numbers
and characters which you usually find on the
router / access point or comes with the
installation CD.
If you want to access the internet from the
adhoc network directly, that is computer to computer,
you still need access password in most cases. If
you are trying access that way and the host
computer is connected to a router, changing from
adhoc access to any available network maybe the
answer.
It helps to give more details, which Operating
System, Windows 98 SE is a lot more complicated
and XP, Vista and Win7 are a lot easier. What
kind of hardware, is it a router connected to a
computer and you want to access the router so
you can connect to the Internet, or you have a
wi-fi card on the computer instead of a router
etc...
dapsonrock - 6/8/09 at 16:12
The network is free of (WPA,WEP etc) password. It
is an open network.
PC DETAILS
windows 2000
intel pentium 4
PCI WIFI CARD(RT2561)
IF you need any info on my wifi card plz
logon to
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Products/Interfaces/miniPCI/PCI/CB.ht
ml
festprint - 6/8/09 at 18:00
If you have done what Mick said and you can
browse files and folders on those
networks which means they have files and folders
sharing allowed. Connecting to
the Internet, it's probably a different story, the
Internet connection itself
may not be shared or deliberately firewalled. In
most cases with older Operating
Systems, you have to configure Internet connection
sharing manually between two
or more computers.
Read on the help files on your particular win2000
help and you're likely to
find the steps required to setup internet connection
sharing properly.
Search here for "internet connection sharing" and
you'll find lots of answers
and discussion, some of which are:
Sharing via a wireless card ,
wireless peer-to-peer set-up,
Problems setting up wireless network,
Ad Hoc Wireless
and there are other threads, you just need to
search.
[Edited on 6/8/2009 by festprint]
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