Hi. I've written to Rhonda about this, and I probably
won't
have time to call tech support at home with my wireless
card in
till this Friday. I have an m-power Bt 18 build 47,
and I'm
still able to do dial-up with Earthlink. I'm also
using my
e-mail address with Earthlink as my address with the
new
high-speed capability, using the possibly infamous
Atandt
extreme, or whatever it is. Anyhow, a computer tech
person set
up a Wep-coded router on my friend's computer, and I
configured a
new wireless connection as follows: name: "home",
wireless
etheffnet network connection, use infrastructure mode:
yes; ssid
came up automatically as nghome; use shared
authentication: yes
(tech support told me to put "no" and someone else said
yes, but
using each answer (I tried "yes and no" didn't solve my
problem
yet. I'm hoping I should keep the authentication at
"yes" (I
don't know what that means, but I looked at something
about it
inthe manual. I obviously put use wep: yes;
authentication:
0-I kept that by default. Under obtain an Isp
automatically, I
was told to put "yes" and I saw something about that
inthe
manual. I wrote the Wep key inthe wireless
configuration in
lower case without number sign or comma, and it's 10
digits.
When asked, use a proxy server for this connecq I said
no. When
it said connecting using existing configurations, I hit
Enter.
When it said connect using which account, I put
Earthlink which I
have dial-up info for in directory of accounts. I
guess I'm
sharing this with my computer and my friend's computer
on one
router. Wireless is very quick and exciting. I can
connect, get
my e-mail, go online, but I can't send e-mail. Please,
Joseph,
Rhonda, Ray, (Ray gave me some pointers over the
phone), help me
figure out why I can't send e-mail wirelessly. I can
send it
with my Earthlink dial-up account just fine, and I'm
using my
same email address with earthlink as my dial-up and
wireless
address. Is this the problem, or do I need to set up
something
else? I thought the "directory of accounts" info was
only for Lan
or dialup. I'm soory this is so detailed, but I can't
put my
finger on why I can't send e-mail with my wifi card
inserted.
Each time I put the wi-fi card in I make sure there's
nothing
inthe Pcmcia slot (I like to use the wi-fi card inthe
front Cf
slot, and I do a sout reset before I get connected.
Thanks for
reading. Sincerely Greatful, Nancy Ung
