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Thanks for your input, Mike. I took your information to heart and bought a Belkin 802.11g card for my Dell Latitude. I really didn't want a g-card, but that's all the local CompUSA had at the time and I needed it right then to help my son trouble-shoot a problem on his Windows network.
Anyway, I wonder if you would be kind enough to help me sort through a few things with this Belkin/Dell setup? I know very little about the Windows side of things. (Then why did I buy the Dell? Well, I have one specific need that can't be done on a Mac, and that will also require being able to download updates from the Internet. So I want to share the Internet connection on my Airport wireless network.)
Unfortunately, I have a very limited network. I'm using the modem in the ABS to connect to the Internet. It works fine for the Macs that I have connected (albeit pretty slow). But, so far, I haven't been able to get the Dell to get an wireless Internet connection on that network. I wonder if that's due to my not having the Dell set up properly.
I was able to connect to my son's wireless cable modem without any difficulty, so that much is known to be working. The Dell utility says it's connected to my Airport and the Dell icon at the bottom right of the desktop turns green. The signal strength shows something like 85%, so all is good there too. But I can't get MSIE to connect to the Internet.
When I checked to Belkin settings, I saw that it was trying to use a 192.x.x.x IP address, whereas my network is using 10.0.1..x. So, with a little help I went into winipcfg and manually changed the settings there to 10.0.1.5 for the Dell, and changed the sub-net mask to the right one. I didn't know what it was referring to when it listed "gateway" (are they using that term for the router?) so I didn't put any info there. And I didn't set any place to enter primary or secondary DNS IPs. I can't help but wonder if one, or both of those are what is preventing the Dell from using the Internet connection on my network.
When I run winipcfg again, I don't get the same dialog windows to fill-in or change, so I'm not sure how to enter the gateway or find a place for the DNS IPs.
Any help you can provide would be **greatly** appreciated. I can't ask these questions on a Mac list. The next best thing is a kindly Mac user that's familiar with Windows. :-)
P.S. Just a reminder, I'm using Windows98 on the Dell.
Thanks in advance,
Bob
Not having DNS Servers set is probably the problem.
If you use manually selected IP addresses, you should set the address of a DNS server.
You could also set up your base station to use NAT and DHCP; then you only have to set the pc to "get an IP address automatically" (I think that's more or less the phrase), which means that it will try to get not only the IP address but also the DNS info from the DHCP server (in this case, the base station).
Luis Sequeira
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