From: "Stuart Updike" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 1863095 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:30:12 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([162.83.95.194] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1N1dst-0002S1-0u for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:30:11 -0400 Received: from elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.64]:48317) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N1dsp-0004o1-0u for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:30:03 -0400 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.4AE2D72B.0110,ss=2,fgs=0 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=mindspring.com; b=TD7KQO+a+UkbtpYZrPjavWUVNHpzqik8YX4/2al3LFtYWRUnggBzXJ1xQVaa3Pgw; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [70.245.158.161] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1N1dso-00071f-52 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:30:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4AE2D454.1060507@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:17:56 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090909 SeaMonkey/2.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Cannot get DHCP References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 981bdc70bc1884855b59645513f9ec4240683398e744b8a47c0bd5abe854cbc4da1201e5b06f905ca8438e0f32a48e08350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 70.245.158.161 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ Ed Durrant wrote: > Hi Stuart - "a light just went on here" - the "magic" of WiFi (and it > is a magic, not a science!) is that if anything is wrong with your > security settings, it does not always come up with the error message > you expect. A connection but no IP address IS one possible condition > that occurs. > > Given that you have tried different WiFi adapters and tried connecting > to different WiFi routers, I am starting to think this may be a > security setting problem. > > A lot of the older cards can only support 802.11b (not G or N) and a > lot will not support WPA or WPA2 encryption only WEP. > > On your WiFi router, have you tried turning off all security and make > sure that it is set to support all speeds of WiFi - i.e. 802.11b and > 802.11G at least? > > I would not leave the router like this as it's an "open door" for > those in range to use your network, but to test you could do this. > Ideally at the end of the day you need to be running 802.11G or N and > WPA2 security, but if the hardware you have wont support this, then > you will need to set it to the best you can get but initially lets see > if you can get things working totally without security enabled. Hello Ed, The original internal wireless card was 802.11b. Then I tried an Intel 2200 b/g card. Then I tried a PCMCIA Cisco 350 b card. At all times the security was turned off on my router. I understand that it needs to be tightened up when I am not testing. The router is a b router. I appreciate you suggestions! Stu Updike Bedford, Texas