I have a belkin wireless router (failry new with
the 2 antenna) , which I used to have my pcs
wired too and was also able too connect to
using the belkin card in my laptop. As we are
going to have some work done on the house I
had to move my pcs but the wireless router had
to stay where it was.
I purchased 2 Micrdigital wireless PCI adaptor cards
F5D7000eaE (which say on the box that they are
produced by Belkin). I moved the XP home pc,
inserted the pci card fired it up and after some
problems sorting out the MAC address for the
card and getting it into the MAC table on the
router it worked fine. I have the router set up
WPA with PSK and AES encryption. The laptop still
conencted to the router no problem.
Then came the move of the W98 machine. Inserted
the wireless card, switched on, loaded the driver
and it saw the network, got the card MAC address
put it into the MAC table entered the PSK and
it can see the network but it won't connect
to the internet or the router setup page.
Whilst I was doing this I put the cd for the
PCI cards in my Xp machine to read the manual
and the CD autoran and over wrote the driver
and in doing so broke the wireless connection with
the router. Now it too sits in the same
position as the win98 pc in that it can see
the network but won't log onto the router control
panel.
I've tried the XP machine with both win xp
controlling the wireless connection and the pci card
control panel but to no avail. I have switched
on and off the windows firewall. I have switched
off all security features on the belkin router -
nothing. The laptop still works fine and I'm
connected to the router with a network lead trailed
across the living room (which my wife is not
too keen on - but never mind).
I have re-entered and double checked the PSK and
the MAC addresses but to no avail and as I've
said I've switched off all security on it but to
no avail.
When I enter ipconfig /all on the XP machine the
wireless card doesn't show up.
If I right clcik on the windows wireless icon in
the tray and pull up the status panel it says
connected with 80-90% signal strength. The pci card
control panel has the right network name and
security settings, treble checked. It has the right
mac address for the router, but no ip address is
assigned.
I've tried uninstalling, re-installing the driver,
removing the card from the hardware profile and
refreshing it, the properties panel says it is
working properly - this applies to both w98 and
xp machines btw.
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