not getting online

Bowman · 08-17-03, 05:22 PM

There is a thread already about this same problem, but it appears the person fixed it, but not sure how.

I have a D-Link CF wirless card, D-Link access point connected to a wired router. I've had no problems at all getting online on my Axim before. I installed a wirless card on my laptop (also DLink), and had problems, so I updated the firmware of the AP, which solved the laptop problems. Since I did that, my Axim will no longer connect. When I try to open a page I just get a message, "The page you are looking for cannot be found."

The settings show a strong signal, I've double checked every setting I can think of (DCHP, preamble, encryption), nothing seems to work. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks

Mike

Howard2k · 08-17-03, 06:36 PM

Does the WIFI card assocaite with the Access Point?
Does the DHCP work?

How far [i]are/[i] you getting?

Bowman · 08-17-03, 11:58 PM

I believe the CF card and the AP are communicating alright. It shows an active link. I'm within about 20 feet of the AP. I have DHCP off on my AP because the wired router is already running DHCP (that was a problem with the laptop card, two DHCPs running at the same time, wouldn't connect).

Howard2k · 08-18-03, 12:01 AM

Does the driver for the NIC show that it's associate with the AP?? Is your Axim running as a DHCP client? Is it getting an IP? What IP is it getting? Can your other PC ping the Axim?

Bowman · 08-18-03, 12:17 AM

Okay I figured it out. I'm just stupid. Had I paied closer attention to the DHCP set up in the router I would have seen that it was set to allow too few connections, I just told it to allow another and it works. Thanks for all the help everyone, I really appreciate it.

Mike

Howard2k · 08-18-03, 12:41 AM

no worries, glad you got it working :)

nemattoad · 08-18-03, 12:48 AM

talking about amusing little mistakes, i once set my router to only allow the following mac addresses, and they were all blank, so nothing could connect.

I had to reset it.

Luckily that was a bug in the original firmware that my router had , which allowed you to block all mac addresses, and there had been already 1 revision when I bought it and another revision a bit later, so they fixed the bug and many others

however I never made a silly mistake again :P

nemattoad · 08-18-03, 03:50 PM

lol, no more silly mistakes in regards to networking, i mess up with many other things though.

Frying my computer, and stuff like that