Two Wireless laptops on Eircom BB Router

bbability

This might be easy to some but I've just tried everything I can think of. I have a Belkin 125g wireless card in my Acer Laptop. I using Eircom BB's Netopia 3347Wg Modem. It was working fine until I tried to set up my cousins Ibm Thinkpad Pentium M on the router. Now my Laptop will connect to the router but will not assign me an IP address. His laptop doen't even see the router. We can both connect via a LAN Cable. Any helpful tips would be gratefully appreciated

Karoma

What Operating Systems are on each machine?

Reset the router and try again is the first place to start.
Are you using encryption?
Keep both laptops within a few feet when setting them up.

irlrobins

what Karoma said:

Remove any encryption setup (WEP, WPA), mac restrictions etc. See if you can connect then. Set router to assign ip address using DHCP and set laptops to use a dynamic address.

bbability

One Laptop is Xp Home, the other is Xp Pro. Both are up to date. I haven't removed the WEP or WPA. I'll try that when I get home later and let you know the outcome.

azezil

Eircom's 3347nwg router comes with wep enabled as default, I wouldn't advise turning it off. But it may be worth changing the default channel of the router, eircom's by default work on channel 7, most adapters I've used work better on 1.

Open the netopia interface, click on 3Dwireless > advanced configuration options > and just change the channel from 7 to 1. The wep key is also listed there, worth taking note of.

irlrobins

disabling wep will just simplfy the network to see if a connection can be made. once things are running ok, he can switch it back on.

bbability

I can connect to the router via my Belkin wireless card but I cannot get past the firewall

irlrobins

on the laptop:

start->run

enter "cmd"

At the command prompt that opens type "ipconfig /all"

Post the results here

bbability

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : acer-2e68c49b20
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Belkin 802.11g Network Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-50-3D-8D-2E
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255

irlrobins

ok the problem is that you're not being assigned an ip address by the router.

Can you check to see that dhcp is enabled on the router and that the laptop is set to get an ip address automatically?

If you're not sure how to do this post back and I'll post instructions

bbability

I'm not sure. I had a try last night but its still not working. Here's what I'm getting now
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.8.178
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

irlrobins

how are u connecting to router? wired or wireless?