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Help with Win98 PC wireless connection
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Help!
I'm trying to help a friend connect with his new wireless setup. He's got a Netgear MR814v2, a Netgear PC card wireless adaptor and a Sony laptop running Win 98. My PB connects just fine, but I'm having trouble with the PC. I don't really know PCs, so any detailed advice welcome. We've installed the drivers and such, but I can't get on the net.
Thanks.
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
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Did you get driver software with the Netgear card? Is it Win98 compatible? Have you installed the driver software for the card?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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I can click on the little icon at the bottom right corner of the screen and bring up the Netgear settings. It shows me connected with a good signal strength and link quality. Everything looks good, but when I open IE, I get "the page cannot be found...".
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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On my Mac, I can log into the router and see the PC as a connected device, but still no joy.
And I can log into the router from the PC. I just can't get internet. Is this a DNS thing?
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
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Go into your Network Control panel on the Win98 computer and click on the TPC/IP settings which are shown bound to your wireless card and make sure that it is set to obtain IP address automatically (or by DHCP) and it is also set to get the DNS automatically)
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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With 98 you have to explicitly share something (anything-a folder, printer, drive root, whatever) in order for anything to show up in Windows Networking (and thus usually Samba). If the Vaio has at least something shared, (explicitly, and with appropriate permissions), you should be able to browse that resource. If nothing is shared, you may only be able to see that a computer is there (or not-is it running 98SE or plain 98?).
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Glenn -----
OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Well, here's what I did (and sorry in advance for wrong bad terminology)... Since I couldn't get any internet through the wireless card, but the ethernet port worked fine, I simply disabled the ethernet card. Immediately the wireless kicked in and all was well. There may be a more elegant fix, but this one worked.
Thanks for the help.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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It must have been an issue with only allowing one network card to associate-and the ethernet card was it.
Congrats on your stab in the (not so) dark.
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Glenn -----
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