Finally got Boot Camp going, but now more trouble

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:01:19 -0700

Hi there. After taking my 13-inch Macbook to a little shop a friend of dad knew of, they finally got Boot Camp and XP going on this somewhat older white Macbook. One of the major problems, well, the only thing I've noticed so far is that no matter how I reconfigure my router, the wifi either times out connecting or says that I might be out of range. If I'm across the room from the thing, it better not be out of range because if I hit connect on other ones I have no clue who owns them, those will ask me for the password. The strange thing is that my own wifi works fine booting up from Snow Leopard, but not XP. I tried lowering security all the way down to WEP as believe it or not, all the other routers according to the network table in the airport thingy say WEP in them, how aweful from a security standpoint but I don't know who owns any of them to get into temporarily to download some updates and see if that solves this. At the place I live at, doubt anyone would know their SSID because they're all non-descript, some 2-wire and numbers, one real long and random one and a cellular-connected one through a local provider, so wouldn't know who to ask permission from if they knew the default keys. With mine, there's 5 in total I can see from here, but the one that refuses to ask for a key has to be mine. I have Charter for Internet, and my modem is a SMCD3GN Docsis 3 Wireless gateway, all the latest and greatest from what I can tell, even with gigabit hardwired ports. How do I force this thing to take on the XP install on my Macbook? I really have to wonder if these modems do Mac address registration and OS analysis. It lets MacOSX on without a hitch, but when I reboot to XP it says I'm out of range almost immediately or it sits there as long as you can wait like a firewall would respond if it's decided the answer is no. Is there a way I can reset what my gateway thinks about the Mac address for the laptop so that it will allow the XP side on? I wonder then if it will forbid OSX? I don't even know if that shop downloaded that 300 mb update there is to the Boot Camp drivers, at least there was when I installed those into a demo of fusion. Is there a way to download them with a PC and install via USB stick since I can't find an open network? If not, what kind of 2Wire Docsis 3 modem can I buy myself to replace this thing, figuring if I have my own, this silly detection won't be there? I suppose if I convinced Charter to send another one, I have to be careful to connect wirelessly with the windows side first and see if it then locks Mac out, but I'd rather not go through that mess. 
Thanks.

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