Phew...you seem to be quite confused about IP addresses and WEP keys and the like. It can be pretty daunting for a newbie, so this is not meant to be a big criticism, but we do need to work through your difficulties...
1. Forget the port #'s. They don't matter at all. There's a distinction between a WAN port (your router should only have one of these) and a LAN port (your router/switch probably has 4 or more of these), but all the LAN ports are the same. You could plug any device into any of them at any time and it doesn't matter. 2. The IP address identifies a computer on the network. It has nothing to do with the port or the slimserver software or anything, just the computer itself (more precisely, the particular binding of the NIC, but for simplicity's sake, let's just say it identifies the computer). 3. The WEP key is essentially just a password that lets wireless computers access your network. It isn't specific to any computer. It's specific to your wireless access point (i.e., your router--though I'm being careless with the term router here). If you have WEP turned on, any device that wants to connect to your network wirelessly must be set up with your network's WEP key. At that point it's connected to the network and is seen by the network and other computers on the network in the same way it would be if it were wired in directly. 4. You seem be getting confused by the fact that you used your primary computer to configure your router. Those settings weren't saved on the computer. You were configuring the software in the router itself. The WEP and SSID settings are saved to your router. You need to use those same settings any time you want to connect to your network with any wireless device. I'm a little confused from your description whether BaseStation is the name of your PC or the SSID of your router--I'm guessing it's your SSID. 5. You probably don't need to worry about static IPs--will likely only cause you more confusion. I don't think you're having DHCP or IP assignment issues. So, I'm going to take a stab at what you need to do judging from what you've said so far: 1. Turn off your primary PC, just to decrease the chance of making a mistake. 2. Press and hold the SB's power button to reset the SB. 3. Choose to connect wirelessly. 4. You should now find and select the name of your *router*. It sounds like you've named it "BaseStation". At this point in the process you *are not* choosing which computer to connect to. You're choosing which network to connect to. 5. Select 64-bit encryption and enter your WEP key (use the same key that you've used in the past to connect to your main computer--remember: it's the same key for the whole network, it's not got anything to do with a specific computer) 6. The SB should now try to connect to your network. Hopefully it's successful. 7. Choose to acquire an IP address automatically. 8. After you've acquired an IP the SB should search for available slimserver machines. Depending on what network name you've given your music computer, you may see it listed here, or you may simply see an IP address. Whatever the SB finds you should use. You can be confident it's the right one since you turned off your primary PC. If the SB doesn't find one at this point, you're either connected to someone else's network, not running slimserver properly on your music pc, or have a firewall issue on your music pc. 9. You should now be able to play music. Good luck! -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29564 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
