Belkin network configuration tells lies

13 Feb 2005 1:07 PM

Neil Lucock

Hi,

My daughter has a Win XP machine with a Belkin wireless network card. I've
got a Belkin 802.11g range extender plugged into the Speedtouch ADSL
modem/router that acts as a DHCP server for the network.
The Belkin software provided says that I'm getting a strong signal and shows
the IP address the modem has given the machine, but when you fire up
Firefox (or I.E) it says that it can't find the chosen URL. If you mess
around with the Belkin software, it will then work (after doing the
diagnostic test it sometimes works, sometimes the machine hangs and needs a
reboot).
Am I missing something obvious? If it says that the connection status is
"associated" is that a clue?
Sorry if this has been discussed before, I'm just a poor Linux user who
expects software to tell the truth :-)
Thanks in advance
Neil

13 Feb 2005 6:36 PM

Jerry Park

Neil Lucock wrote:

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>Hi,
>
>My daughter has a Win XP machine with a Belkin wireless network card. I've
>got a Belkin 802.11g range extender plugged into the Speedtouch ADSL
>modem/router that acts as a DHCP server for the network.
>The Belkin software provided says that I'm getting a strong signal and shows
>the IP address the modem has given the machine, but when you fire up
>Firefox (or I.E) it says that it can't find the chosen URL. If you mess
>around with the Belkin software, it will then work (after doing the
>diagnostic test it sometimes works, sometimes the machine hangs and needs a
>reboot).
> Am I missing something obvious? If it says that the connection status is
>"associated" is that a clue?
>Sorry if this has been discussed before, I'm just a poor Linux user who
>expects software to tell the truth :-)
>Thanks in advance
>Neil
>
>
>
>

If this posts twice, sorry. BellSouth newsgroup server being flaky....

Does the Belkin card have a gateway and a DNS server?

Start|Run|ipconfig /all

If it hasn't received a gateway address, it can't connect. If it hasn't
received a DNS server address, it can't find addresses on the Internet.
The DNS address(es) may be a real DNS address or it may be the address
of the gateway.

Also, are you sure the address the Belkin has is a valid address
assigned by the router? If it is a 169.x.x.x address, it isn't getting
an address from the router.

14 Feb 2005 10:39 PM

Neil Lucock

Jerry Park wrote:

are you sure the address the Belkin has is a valid address

> assigned by the router? If it is a 169.x.x.x address, it isn't getting
> an address from the router.

My router is a Speedtouch, running as a DHCP server, it's assigning an IP
address of 10.0.0.3 to the machine. (You have to have IP addresses starting
with 10.0.0.x with a Speedtouch). The default gateway is listed as
10.0.0.138, which is the address of the Speedtouch.
That's why I'm confused. In Linux we'd already be on slashdot, with Win XP
it says "associated" under "status" and I've no idea what that means. Any
other ideas?
Thanks,
Neil