no data received, only sent from wireless 802.11b PCI card

31 Mar 2005 7:26 PM

Beowulf

I installed a wireless PCI card (b) on my second WindowsXP PC system. It
shows it is connected to my main computer (using Linksys wireless router)
wireless router signal, and shows bytes sent but 0 bytes received. Wireless
router has encryption turned off. What am I doing or not doing wrong? Very
frustrating, wireless seems very hard to set up.

I also am able to choose between Infrastructure or AdHoc mode for network
mode on the wireless card, neither of which I understand. If I choose Adhoc
mode I do not see any data sent or received as that is greyed out as
automatic or unavailable.

31 Mar 2005 9:10 PM

Time Teamer

could be a Firewall problem.

have you set up each systems Firewall settings to allow the other through.

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"Beowulf" <beow***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>I installed a wireless PCI card (b) on my second WindowsXP PC system. It
> shows it is connected to my main computer (using Linksys wireless router)
> wireless router signal, and shows bytes sent but 0 bytes received.
> Wireless
> router has encryption turned off. What am I doing or not doing wrong? Very
> frustrating, wireless seems very hard to set up.
>
> I also am able to choose between Infrastructure or AdHoc mode for network
> mode on the wireless card, neither of which I understand. If I choose
> Adhoc
> mode I do not see any data sent or received as that is greyed out as
> automatic or unavailable.

31 Mar 2005 11:40 PM

Beowulf

Beowulf wrote:

> I installed a wireless PCI card (b) on my second WindowsXP PC system. It
> shows it is connected to my main computer (using Linksys wireless router)
> wireless router signal, and shows bytes sent but 0 bytes received...

Problem solved.

31 Mar 2005 11:46 PM

bryan

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:40:50 -0600, Beowulf wrote:

> Beowulf wrote:
>
>> I installed a wireless PCI card (b) on my second WindowsXP PC system. It
>> shows it is connected to my main computer (using Linksys wireless
>> router) wireless router signal, and shows bytes sent but 0 bytes
>> received...
>
> Problem solved.

how?

1 Apr 2005 10:52 AM

fhm

I have the same problem, however my OS is Win2kPro, no firewall. I can
install my D-Link card and the computer works fine. When I try to use the
computers built in wireless, I can see the communication link up, but no
packets received. The network is not encrypted.
At home, on my encrypted network, the internal wireless works just fine.
Anyone have an idea what the problem might be? The only difference seems to
be the encryption vs. no encryption.

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"Beowulf" <beow***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> I installed a wireless PCI card (b) on my second WindowsXP PC system. It
> shows it is connected to my main computer (using Linksys wireless router)
> wireless router signal, and shows bytes sent but 0 bytes received.
Wireless
> router has encryption turned off. What am I doing or not doing wrong? Very
> frustrating, wireless seems very hard to set up.
>
> I also am able to choose between Infrastructure or AdHoc mode for network
> mode on the wireless card, neither of which I understand. If I choose
Adhoc
> mode I do not see any data sent or received as that is greyed out as
> automatic or unavailable.