Trouble w/ wireless networking on win98 laptop

[pmlabrier]

I have an older Toshiba laptop ( 750CDT) that I have been using for a wile now. I recently decided it was time to wipe the drive and install Win98se again. Other than a wireless network adapter everything else is stock.

The wireless networking WAS working fine. Now I cannot get it to connect properly to my wireless router. I have tried THREE different wireless adapters. One USB and two PC Cards. They all exhibit the same problem. They connect to the wireless router and show a strong signal strength and it even gets an IP address but it does NOT show up on the network, will not resolve IP addresses, respond to ping or browse to IP addresses. The router recognizes it and says it has assigned it an IP address and that matches the IP address that the cards config utility says it was assigned.

I put a Xircom 10/100 wired network adapter and it worked like a champ.

I did not adjust ANY thing on the wireless adapters TCP/IP settings , everything was left blank or disabled. This is the way my sons Toshiba 740 CDT is set up and it is on the wireless network flawlessly. I even tested these cards and they all worked.

Is there some other settings I am missing? I know I have installed these before with no problem but right now I am drawing a blank.

Thanks,

Paul LaBrier

[glc]

Very often, wireless issues with Win98 can be solved by assigning it a static IP.

[Ray M]

I hope this is not considered hijacking this thread, but I am having the same problem on a new setup. It's my first try at this. I hope he gets back when it's resolved. glc, would one set up a static IP on the router and the laptop?

[glc]

Just the laptop. Assign it a static IP in the same subnet as the router but outside its DHCP scope, use the router IP for default gateway, and the actual ISP's DNS. If it's a Linksys router, for example, default router IP is 192.168.1.1 with a subnet mask 255.255.255.0, default DHCP scope is 192.168.1.100 through .149. So, I'd assign the laptop 192.168.1.99, and you can find the actual DNS on the router's WAN status page.

[Ray M]

Ok thanks glc. That makes it much more clear for me and I should be able to do this with this info.