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wireless networking help

by toml1193 Sep 3, 2005 3:44PM PDT

My wife recently bought an apple ibook, and I purchased a PC a few months ago with the Asus A8V-E motherboard, which has a wireless LAN card built in with a software access point. After I set up my network, my wife's apple was able to connect to the network I had set up, but her machine is not able to connect to the internet. I ran the network diagnostics on her mac and it said to unplug my DSL modem and then retry, which did not help the problem. I know her machine is capable of connecting as she can get wireless service on our college campus. Any suggestions? Im running Windows XP SP2 and she has OS X Tiger.

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Describe your "software access point"....
by Michael Geist Sep 3, 2005 10:00PM PDT

is this another name for a proxy server?

If you have not yet purchased a wireless router, you may want to go this way for lots of reasons.

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soft ap
by toml1193 Sep 9, 2005 5:46PM PDT

I don't think that the software ap is a proxy server. I am not completely sure, as I a little hazy how a router and access point are related. I would go the router route(no pun intended), but I got this mobo so I could configure the onboard wireless and I don't want to spend more money on this. I bridged my ethernet controller and my wireless connection because it got my LAN connection working. Don't know if that changes anything. Basically, after I install my wireless card driver and utility, a one touch setup wizard pops up where I choose the configuration I want (either "create a new wireless LAN(AP)" or "connect to an existing wireless LAN"). Since I want to create my own network, I choose the former and it prompts me for an SSID and then for WEP protection and the like. It then configures my settings and the wireless connection seems to work fine. My wife's computer will connect to the network, but I cannot view any shared folders or connect to the internet. I assume her computer is not getting an IP address of one of my components but I'm not sure which it is. If I had another PC here I think I could figure it out but I have issues using the iMac. Here's my IP configuration if that helps at all:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : familycomputer
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Network Bridge (Network Bridge) 5:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : MAC Bridge Miniport
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-11-D8-88-EE-7F
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

PPP adapter Verizon DSL:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.238.138.73
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 68.238.138.73
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.238.128.12
68.238.0.12
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Someone please help soon before my head explodes.

System info: XP Home/AMD Athlon 3200+/1 Gb RAM/ASUS A8V-E with onboard wireless LAN

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Just wondering
by Mojo_58 Sep 14, 2005 2:38AM PDT

Does your machine have appletalk loaded? If not does loading get your wife's PC on the inet? Seems like something you would have tried already but was wondering.

Edward Fox

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