Page 1 of Vista Wireless Network Help

Hi Guys

I`ve just bought myself one of them lovely new Dell systems with Vista Premium. Now as I was previously using a laptop I went and bought myself a USB Wireless network adapter (Netgear WG111 its v2 edition) and I`m trying to get it to connect to my BThomehub.
I`ve been on the netgear website and downloaded the latest software and drivers that are Vista compatible and that appears to be ok as the device manager has eveything as being enabled and working properly.

The problems lies with getting it to connect with the homehub, its only picked it up on a bout 3 occasions, but it then dissapears before I`ve had a chance to put the WEP in. Nothing else in the house has a problem connecting to it. Now I`ve looked and I have no conflicting firewalls (I don`t think).

Is there something I`m doing wrong or is there something i`ve gotta do in Vista?? Any help would be much appreciated. :B

Thanks, Craig

"Dont mention the zed word"

Can you connect without WEP?

This item was edited on Friday, 1st June 2007, 09:06

Hi

Have a look in network connections for the wireless adaptor.

it might be that in the properties, you have to "de-select" TCP/IPv6
and revert back to TCP/IPv4

Ste.

........is that gasoline i smell?

I haven`t tried to connect without WEP, I dont think thats the problem though, as it doesn`t even find it.

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Have a look in network connections for the wireless adaptor.

it might be that in the properties, you have to "de-select" TCP/IPv6
and revert back to TCP/IPv4

I think you may be onto something, as when I did look on the properties it did list both of them and I didn`t know which was which.
Can I change them though without it finding a network?? Will I have to manually create the connection.

"Dont mention the zed word"

yeah, you can change them without being connected to a network.

i`ve not used vista, but know that this *can* be an issue.

simply remove the tick in the TCP/IPv6 box....you can`t uninstall it
but you can disable it. make sure that TCP/IPv4 is selected.

Ste.

........is that gasoline i smell?

Will give it a go when I get home. Cheers mate

"Dont mention the zed word"

Unticked the box but it still won`t find the network let alone even give me the chance to connect to it.

I`m gonna change the channel of the hub tomorrow when no-ones connected to it, just to see if that make any difference at all. Might try and connect to it wired and download some vista updates as I read that may help. But i`m running out of ideas....... :(

"Dont mention the zed word"

cb,

have you got wireless MAC filtering enabled on the BT hub?
if so, you will have to enter the netgears MAC addy into the "allowed" access list.

if it`s not enabled, try and connect to the hub by assigning the laptop with a "manual" IP address.
you will need the SSID of the hub too.

if you know the range of IP`s generated by the hub, give the new pc an IP which is within that range but considerably higher than the other machines on your network, e.g. pc`s 1 ~ 4 are 192.168.1.2 ~ 192.168.1.5. change the new pc to 192.168.1.20

you will also need to enter subnet, default gateway and dns values.

the default gateway and dns values will be the hubs IP addy, i.e. 192.168.1.1
the subnet will be 255.255.255.0

hth

Ste.

........is that gasoline i smell?

Well I unplugged the computer and moved closed to the hub and strangely it connected. I just cancelled the startup of the netgear program and used windows to connect it. I gave it a static IP address.

I then done some windows vista updates and it came up and said that my netgear usb adapter was incompatible with vista and it would try and find an update to correct it. Which is strange I guess as thats how it was connected.

Well least I know everything works, so now when I unplug and take back to my room it might be ok (he says with everything crossed)... :D

"Dont mention the zed word"