dapsonrock
Newbie  Posts: 3 Registered: 3/8/09 Status: Offline |
posted on 3/8/09 at 10:21
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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
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Fellsider
Full Member  Posts: 72 Registered: 11/11/04 Status: Offline |
posted on 3/8/09 at 17:09 |
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. __________________________________
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dapsonrock
Newbie Posts: 3 Registered: 3/8/09 Status: Offline |
posted on 5/8/09 at 10:56 |
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?
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festprint
SuperAdmin  Posts: 119 Registered: 2/1/03 Status: Online |
posted on 5/8/09 at 11:29 |
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...
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dapsonrock
Newbie Posts: 3 Registered: 3/8/09 Status: Offline |
posted on 6/8/09 at 10:12 |
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 ralinktech
/ralink/Home/Products/Interfaces/miniPCI/PCI/CB.html |
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festprint
SuperAdmin Posts: 119 Registered: 2/1/03 Status: Online |
posted on 6/8/09 at 12:00 |
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.
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