Wireless problem.limited connectivity after installing firefox & no default gateway

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ok this is bizarre

ipconfig/all

Host name...........................jimmy-dibad6cxb
Primary Dns Suffix...................
Node Type..Broadcast
IP routing Enabled ................no
WINS Proxy enabled ................no

Ethernet adapter Local Area connection

Media State..............media disconnected
Description....blah blah


Ethernet adapter wireless network connection2
Media State......media disconnected
Description .........Wave plus..WP1200 802.11b Wirless

 

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but the other laptop which is working on the same router...gives everything....after I did ipconfig/all

but the new one is difficult ....

I think update would work .....

 

Just out of curiousity... you are trying to connect to your flatmates hub and not someone elses in the neighbourhood?

What's the name of the BThub network on the laptop that is connected to it?

 

BThone hub 8E84

No it is ours....why would I try to connect to neighbors (no key)....lol....we share it....

 

avi_sinha,

Questions:

1. Which wireless technology does the secondhand laptop's wireless NIC use?
2. Which wireless technology does the wireless access point use?

 

because a lot people don't know how to name their wireless routers, some don't even know how to setup the security on them and leave this off for other people in the neighbourhood to piggyback on their signal!

Where I am, if I switch on my wirless card on my laptop (which I am currently typing on) then I can see 3 belkin wireless routers. 2 of them have been name 1 just states Belkin. The others show BT HUB and Netgear.

I can see 1 that is unsecure and is broadcasting a good signal. It's got no security - god only knows why??

 

Nothing wrong with having the default name, it only becomes a pain if someone else has the same one, at the end of the day, its only a SSID. Even, if you hide it, there are plenty of software to "retrieve" it.

Priority is alway encryption, and a strong passphrase.

 

That's just my point! What if (in this case) someone else has the same network name and avi is trying to connect to the wrong one?

 

He will get a message about his creditials being incorrect, and if he does connect to it (next doors unsecured wireless), then he should pick up an IP addy thats distrubed by the neighbours router.

It all depends on his findings... ....i can be totally off target here,

 

I would try giving yourself a static ip address that is in the same range as whatever address your flatmate's laptop has. Also, check the dhcp configuration on the wireless router to make sure that there are available leases and check that mac address filtering isnt enabled or, if it is, add the mac address of your wireless card to it.

I doubt installing firefox has anything to do with your problem, probably just a coincidence.

Jiggy

 

Static would work fine, but still this is only a workaround, and would not permanently fix this issue, especially, if he takes the laptop somewhere else, and try to attach to a different subnet/gateway, he'll be back to square one.

 

I guess we really need more info, like what other changes did Avi make after the installation of FF


then again. his flat mate could of blocked his laptop MAc address on the router??

 

The only other changes which I made was ..I deleted most of the list of router which I didnt wanted to use.

It was picking up routers name of previous owner....

so Had to delete it and then on the problem started....



second..... I am using the driver which is provided with XP..... i am not using the manufacturer one ...because I cant download it ...this seems bit different as the wave plus WV1200 does not have link to download the driver...


Strange thing in my network connection....

there is 1394 Connection
1394 Net Adapter

this shows connected.... I am not really sure what is it....

but it worked initially.....when this 1394 thing was there.

seems like some from Scotland is replying to my thread... i am in Edinburgh .... can someone help..

I ll buy you a pint..mate

 

Thanks hombre....for help.

But i got that fixed by chance...

I uninstalled this 1394 thing....... eventually it is still appearing on my network connection page...

but this time when I tried to connect to BT home hub it asked for network key

and voila....I am on....

 

As in 1394 Firewire?

 

Yep that's a firewire port.. weird, there must have been a conflict i guess.. congrats for sorting it

 

After doing some research on this, am i right in assuming that this is caused by the fact the Windows has created a "network conneciton" using firewire ?