Ahh.. 98se L3 issues. Fun! What AP's are the school using - if they don't mind telling?
It might be an issue with 98se & archaic DHCP w/ the vendor AP. Yes, DHCP has it's moments but.. there's better stuff out there.. not commercially yet.. Anyways, enough plugging... Logic says this card (including drivers) & the msft IP stack worked fine in other "spots" so likely it is the L3 negotiation that is failing - either on the client or the AP.. this is just a wild rant of mine but may be worthy for you to hunt down. All questions are good. You *shouldn't have to rebuild your OS to get the net working though.. I'm sorry you had to do that... <omit below steps - I someone unknowingly seemed to type> 1. Rip out networking - everything. 2. Reboot once with no net/nic @ all. 3. do a normal Shutdown. 4. Plug in card. 5. Restart. 6. Let 98se do its dance.. 7. Restart. 8. Check signal strength 9.. Wait for the archaic DHCP discovery 10. Open DOS prompt #. Type winipcfg /all #. Check the -wire net adapter for school IP info. whatever priv net are they are peddling... #. try to "fine tune" the net settings... no logon, file/printer sharing, wins, etc.. #. waaiit... if you know the local link IP info.. you could just pick a random last octet.. hmmm.. give that a try too.. if you really need net access... ask a buddy - if there is 1 @ your school, geesh - for their settings. If all else fails - "unplug" & doodle. ;-) Good luck! Brian *-----Original Message----- *From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:24 PM *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: RE: [SOCALWUG] win98SE Wireless * * * *Thanx for the help. * * As for number 1, I have Fdisk'ed, partitioned, formated, *and reinstalled windows, and it continues to occur. I will *try and find another copy of windows 98SE, so I can try that *again, although probably just re install them like you suggested. * * As for number 2, they claim, and the site says, there is *no encryption. The only filtering they are using is MAC *filtering. And again, they have confirmed time and time again *that the MAC addresses are correct. * * Again, thanx for the information, and please, keep it coming. * *Michael * *In a message dated 6/29/2004 9:16:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, *"Mike Outmesguine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: * *>This sounds like a TCP/IP problem. *> *>Either, *>1. Your TCP/IP services are corrupted on your machine. Which would *>require removing the TCP/IP protocol from the network *settings, reboot, *>and reinstall, reboot, and configure. �(Write down your TCPIP *address, *>gateway, subnet, and dns before doing this.) *>-Or- *>2. You are not getting TCP/IP traffic from your school site. *This could *>be due to encryption (or MAC filters as you mentioned) on their *>network. �You may be getting link lights and signal strength, but the *>TCP/IP traffic is not being sent. *> *>Either of the above would cause WINIPCFG (or IPCONFIG from a DOS *>prompt) to time out, possibly with the symptoms you describe. *> *>-Mike O. *> www.wifi-toys.com *> *>PS: Listmembers, Wi-Fi Toys is now shipping from Amazon.com! *> *> *> *>-----Original Message----- *>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On *>Behalf Of Frank Keeney *>Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:09 PM *>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *>Subject: [SOCALWUG] win98SE Wireless *> *> *> *>-----Original Message----- *>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *> *> �I hope you guys can help. *> *>I have been attempting, for the last couple of weeks, to use *the wiress *>AP's that they have set up at school. �From what I am told, *the AP are *>operated by Verizon. *> *> � My current setup is a win98SE machine, and a choice of several *>different network cards. �None of them work at school. *> *> � I spoke to th IT person, who said that it doesn't appear that the *>machine is getting the IP info from the AP/DHCP. �I ran winipcfg, and *>while at school, I often times can't release the IP, and when *I attempt *>to renew the IP, I get, "Error DHCP server unavailable: Renewing IP" � *>Also, alot of the times, the winipcfg program will stop *responding, and *>then, all of a sudden, come back to life, and then I get the *same error *>as before. �And of course, it doesn't work. �HOWEVER, if I attempt to *>release and/or renew the IP when I am at home, at Starbucks, *or "Borrowing" someone elses AP, it works fine. *> *> � I therefore tried one of the cards on a friends XP Pro *machine, and *>he said he was able to get an IP, but for some reason, he didn't want *>to talk much more about it (WEIRD) *> *> � Any one know what the problem is. �Is it that the Verizon *equipment *>doesn't like win98/win98SE. �Should I upgrade the winipcfg program *>somehow, or use something else. *> *> � I thought maybe I messed up when I registered the card *with school, *>but, I have checked with them, and the MAC address (I guess they are *>using MAC address filtering) was correct in their system. �Besides, I *>don't think they would input it incorrectly for 2 different cards. �I *>guess it is possible though. *> *>So, anyone got any ideas. *> *>Thanx *>Michael *>Desperate to surf, instead of learn, during class. *> *> *> *
