ric Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 I added wireless capability to an older PC, PII 450, and intended to use with wireless connection. Reformatted, installed XP Pro, installed wireless, the machine finds the wireless network, excellent connection but I can not connect to the internet. Im beat, cant think why? I already have one PC on the network and no problems. Try to repair and get the message can not renew IP address, contact Administrator or ISP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 Are you able to ping the router after connecting to the wireless network? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ric Posted February 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 I am able to ping the loopback address and the computer but not the router it would seem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 Please follow these instructions so we can get a better idea of your network topology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ric Posted February 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Both the router and wireless adapter are DLinkWindows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : desktop Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : NoEthernet adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : D-Link Air DWL-122 Wireless USB Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-3D-DF-F2-42 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.113.212 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.113.212This line indicates that the router is not assigning an IP address. Most likely, the adapter is not connecting properly to the wireless network. Please take a look at my wireless networking tutorial and see if that helps. If not, then hard-wire the computer to the router and change the following:Wireless mode - set it to BChannel - Set it to 11SSID - set it to your home telephone numberThen again follow my tutorial for connecting and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ric Posted February 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Hard wire is not an option as 32 bit devices on this system do not work (no nic, no modem) that is why I went with a usb wireless adapter. I'll go through everything again ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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