Hello, Charlie. It's probably gratuitous advice, but remember that your password, and certainly your WEP key are case sensitive, so when you are typing in your WEP key, you are using computer braille and you need the U-Chord prefix before any letters contained in the WEP key derived from your Linksys router. I am not a network expert by any means, but my recollection is that you don't want infrastructure mode on either your router or your BrailleNote unless you are intending to connect with other network devices directly and not through the router.
Good luck! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Wirless Issue Well thanks Tom - you have given me some hope anyway (smile) - yes when I review my active connection I get an IP address that seems out of kilter Ie: 169.254.67.etc. I've typed in my key so many times I know it by heart and have reset and in fact loaded Keysoft 7.2 while trying to get this going. I have a linksys G router with one computer hardwired and one working wireless - it can handle 50 machines (the default). I believe it is running in infrastructure (at least that is what the wireless computer is showing). So I've setting the configuration as "infrastructure mode "yes" and shared authentication "no" and "yes" to automatically get an IP address. when I go into the browser I get a "cannot find server or dns error". Ever have one of those weekends? Charlie. Charlie Macdonald 2145 Connaught Avenue Halifax, Nova Scotia B3L 2Z2 Telephone: (902) 423-1781 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Wirless Issue > Hi, > You wrote: > > >> Greetings: I've received my Ambicom wireless card and have set up a >> configuration following the process as outlined in the manual. I >> seem to >> have a wireless connection when I check but when I try to read >> email or >> open the browser I cannot access - any suggestions of what to do? > > I ran across the same situation just the other day when helping a > friend > set up for wireless. One of the best things that you can do is > check the > details of the active connection. Make sure that you have an ip > address > that looks similar to the addresses for other devices on the > network, i.e. > 192.168.1.101, 102, etc. If you notice an ip address like > 169.254.x.x, > that should raise a red flag right there. In a case like that, the > router > has given you what some would call a fallback address, which may > indicate > only partial authentication. Thing of the device having a partial > connection, being a member of the network but having only a status > of > member at large, so to speak. That's what happened to my friend's > BN, and > in that case, the wep key was typed incorrectly. Make sure that if > you're > using wep, that the key is exactly as it should be. Once we > corrected > that wep key on the BN, bingo, everything was cruising along as it > should > be. > > Oh, and one more thing, even if everything looks kosher in the > active > connection details and you still get that "can't find server" > message, > sometimes a simple reset will straighten things out. I know that > the > parameters for my wireless network are right on, but I still get > that > trouble every once in a while, and doing a simple reset will set > things to > rights. > > I'm no network expert, but I hope this helps a little bit. > > Tom > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release Date: > 15/09/2006 > > ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
