I have an ABit AB9 PRO desktop dual booting XP
Pro SP2 and Vista Ultimate and fitted with the
AirPace WiFi PCI-E card. I also have a Toshiba
Laptop running XP SP2 with a 2Wire PCMCIA card.
Both machines are running Symantec Client Security.
The Toshiba picks up my neighbour's Netgear Wireless
router (Who is also running Symantec Client Security)
and connects to his network and browses the
Internet without problem. However, I cannot get a
connection between the Toshiba laptop and my desktop
with the Airpace card. I've tried running the
Airpace in Access Point mode in XP, Vista and XP
'Safe Mode with networking'. In all cases the
Toshiba sees the network, asks for and accepts the
key but then just reports 'Aquiring Network Address'
which it never achieves. The signal strength on
the network is reported as Very Good or Excellent
The 2Wire PCMCIA card diagnostic reports 'Check IP
for default IP vs DHCP assigned IP' FAILED a
test which it passes when connected to my
neighbour's network. I can ping both computers from
each other.
Obviously I've got some setting wrong on my XP
and Vista Desktop installations but which one? Any
help would be much appreciated.
