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Tim
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join:2001-11-24
Big Sur, CA
| reply to countryjoe
Re: [SRS] Can't share connection any more
I don't know if this will help any or not, but last week after reading some things about the linksys sight I decided to look for some updated information on my wap11, version 2.2 which I have connected to the network here at home. I have a Toshiba laptop with the wireless built in running xp pro. I saw a firmware upgrade and upgraded the firmware on the wap 11 version 2.2. The next day I lost my wireless connection from the laptop to the wap or any part of the network. The icon would change to connected, say it had excellent reception, and then back to no connection and then a red x would be through the icon. I couldn't ping any part of the network from the laptop to the network. I have my wap11 setup with the default address of 192.168.244.151 and my laptop has an address of 192.168.244.153. When I changed to the ethernet link I could ping the network, including the wap 11 which I have connected to an ethernet switch.
I was able to bring up the wap from the ethernet network machine connected to the switch by putting in the default address 192.168.244.151 in the browser using my password and login. If you've never used it before leave the login blank and put admin in as the password until you can change your login and password. I kept getting an error message saying that the linksys connection was there and that then it was not. I had always left the wep on disable but this time I was forced to configure it this way. After changing the information a second time I went to linksys and downloaded the updated setup installation file for the wap 11 2.2 and put it on the laptop by using the ethernet connection. Once I reconfigured the wap 11 and then ran the new setup file and then configured the wep I was able to connect.
I'm still a little uncertain as to what I did to fix it, but it now works.
tim
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home:aol+, white dish, G4R, 1210, base:xppro aol7.0 4114.563, 4 clients,xppro, sharing with AllAboard SE Linksys WAP11, 2 802.11b clients. work: srs win2k sp3, G4r 1230 4.0.3.9 spb, ics with 6 clients. |
