On Dec 7, 2006, at 2:17 PM, William D.Bandes wrote:
On this try, I get only the IP address, and for the
rest it says, "not available."
Ok, then something is going wrong with the DHCP connection.
but still no connection. I tried to select "connect
manually," I entered all these numbers, but still no
connection.
Unless you tried pinging something by IP number, then you can't
actually be sure you have no connection.
When I try to connect, it says:
With iCab, xxxx is currently unavailable.
With Explorer, The attempt to load xxxx failed.
With Emailer, Could not resolve domain name because
no data was available for reading.
Everything you are doing here is relying on DNS to work properly. So
you could actually be connected to the internet just fine, and simply
be having a problem with DNS. This is why you need to try pinging
something by IP address.
However, my guess is, it is not a DNS problem, the Emailer error
leads me to believe the TCP/IP connection isn't working correctly.
In your TCP/IP control panel, go to the Settings menu choose User
Mode, change to Advanced. Then you should have a button on the TCP/IP
setup screen for "Options". Click that button, change the setting
that appears to "Load Always" instead of "Load Only When Needed".
Then close the window, close the TCP/IP window, reopen it, see what
the IP address info is, if it isn't all filled in correctly, click
the Renew button and see if it fills in then. If not, change to
Manual and assign the settings based on what you last knew to be
good. Then proceed to try doing a ping.
If you are getting an IP address, can you ping the router,
if you can ping the router, can you ping the DNS servers?
What is this? How do I try it?
You need something that can issue pings. The easiest is probably
IPNetMonitor by SustWorks.com. Or, if you already have Interarchy
installed, I believe it will do pings as well.
Before you worry about running any software, you need to see if you
can ping the router and then things beyond (such as the DNS server).
Now on the road I can find all the signals but not connect.
If encrypted I am given the passphrase but cannot connect.
Yet the Control Panel for the PCMCIA card shows that I am
connected to a strong signal.
Because of possible encryption issues, you can "connect" to a
wireless access point, and yet still not be able to do anything.
Think of connecting to an access point as plugging in an ethernet
cable to your computer. Just because you plug it in, it doesn't mean
you can use the services. The same applies with wireless, you can
"connect" and get a perfect signal, and still not be able to use the
services.
-chris
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