I have an Orinoco PCMCIA Gold card in my dell laptop which is running SuSE Linux. The card works fine....took it to a friend's place and can get on his network no problem. However, my AP is a little D-link DI514. My Orinoco card can receive the D-link WAN MAC address, but I cannot get on the internet. I have enabled then disabled MAC filtering to see if the problem was there. I have enabled then disabled WEP encryption for the same reason. When I ping the AP from my laptop, it doesn't get through. No connection. My ISP is roadrunner, and my AP is set as DHCP. Seems to assign IP's OK. My desktop to which the AP is connected is running Windows2000.

The MAC address of the D-link ends in 8D, yet the MAC address of the WAN is exactly the same except it ends in 8C. I know the AP has a router attached also which probably would have its own MAC address, and it is normal for an AP to have a number of MAC addresses.

This is very frustrating.

I had the same EXACT problem and have been pulling out my hair for a month.

Here's the solution:

-Goto the D-link router configuration site (198.168.0.1)
-Click on the "Advanced" tab at the top, then click the "Performance" button on the left
-Change the "Preamble" setting to "long"
-Wait for router to restart, close programs, and try to get on the internet.

This was posted for various Apple forums. Hope this helps.

Man I had to register just to say THANK YOU. I've been trying to get WEP and this D-link router to work every since I got it months ago. That preamble setting did the trick. Cheers.

Thanks. Its solved my problem. My friend was trying to solved this problem from last one month. Thanks a lot you solved our problem.

Thanks
Jaweed Sarfraz

I also had to register just to comment. I didn't even look at the preamble setting until I read this posting while searching on similar issues. Shouldn't it be set to LONG by default! jesu christo, what a pain in the a***.

[Edited on 19/6/2004 by festprint]

I have a similar problem (please keep in mind that I am not to up-to-snuff on this stuff). On the router's control page thing, it shows my laptop, the IP and whatnot and soforth. Then, on the status page, under wireless, it says that it's been sending and recieving packets of info. However, my laptop, which says it is connected to the IPPS or ISSP or w/e, says it's only sending packets, but says it hasn't recieved any. Could the above solution answer my problem? Thanks a lot
Vince

I recently attached an ethernet cable to my laptop, and now I can share files and printers, but still when I go to CMD and type "net view" it shows just the laptop. However, changling the preamble to long just made my speed go down to 1 mbps, and didn't help n e thing. Thanks,
Vince

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I had the same EXACT problem and have been pulling out my hair for a month.

Here's the solution:

-Goto the D-link router configuration site (198.168.0.1)
-Click on the "Advanced" tab at the top, then click the "Performance" button on the left
-Change the "Preamble" setting to "long"
-Wait for router to restart, close programs, and try to get on the internet.

This was posted for various Apple forums. Hope this helps.

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I had the same EXACT problem and have been pulling out my hair for a month.

Here's the solution:

-Goto the D-link router configuration site (198.168.0.1)
-Click on the "Advanced" tab at the top, then click the "Performance" button on the left
-Change the "Preamble" setting to "long"
-Wait for router to restart, close programs, and try to get on the internet.

This was posted for various Apple forums. Hope this helps.

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